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Question 152887: Suppose that 387 people will travel on a shuttle with room for 420 people. Each compartment seats 14 people before the next compartment opens. How many people will ride in the last compartment that opened?
what I did was I tried 387/14 and got about 27 seats for the full 14 compartment seats and I think the answer is 9 but not to sure Answer by vleith(2983) (Show Source):
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So you have 27 full compartments and one that has some people in it, but not yet full
people are contained in the 27 full compartments.
that leaves 387-378 = 9 in the one that is not yet full
Also (14* 0.642) = 9 - so that 'remainder' is 9 in both cases
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