Question 798435: A company that makes crayons is trying to decide which 5 colors to include in a promotional mini-box of 5 crayons. The company can choose the 5 mini-box colors from its collection of 65 colors. How many mini-boxes are possible?
Answer by FrankieVlad(2)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! To do this you would simply just divide 65 divided by 5. 65 divided by 5 would equal 13. So the company could be able to make a total 13 mini boxes of crayons.
If you need help understanding how to do any problem like this here are the steps.
1. What is the problem asking.
example: In this problem, the question was asking how many mini boxes of crayons a company could make.
2. Look at important information given in the sentence, especially where there are numbers.
example: In this problem the important information was The company can choose the 5 mini-box colors from its collection of 65 colors.
3. Look for key words like from,each,of, or any other words like that. Usually from and each mean to divide and of means to multiply.
Example: in this problem the word from was found in the important sentence so it meant to divide the smaller number (5) from the larger number (65).
(65 divided by 5)
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