SOLUTION: Mrs Gupta has 250 sweets to share among her class of 32 children. Each child gets the same number of sweets. Mrs Gupta keeps the sweets that are left over.How many sweets does Mrs

Question 1191280: Mrs Gupta has 250 sweets to share among her class of 32 children. Each child gets the same number of sweets. Mrs Gupta keeps the sweets that are left over.How many sweets does Mrs Gupta keep?Use an inverse operation to check your answer.
Answer by ikleyn(52797) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Make obvious things.


Divide 250 by 32 :  you will get    = 7.8125.


Round the quotient 7.8125 to the closest lesser integer, which is 7.


So, each child will get 7 sweets.


7*32 = 224 sweets were distributed uniformly among 32 children.


250 - 224 = 26 is left over.

Solved.

To check, subtract 26 from 250 and divide the difference by 32 to make sure that the result is an integer number.

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