Question

rory works at a produce packing plant. she packed 2,153 strawberries last week and put them in containers with 6 strawberries in each one. how many containers of strawberries did rory fill with 6 strawberries? rory filled \boxed{} containers of strawberries. complete the explanation of how you used the quotient and the remainder to answer the question. the ? was used as the answer. the remainder was not written as a fraction because the problem asks how many containers of 6 strawberries rory made. the last container only has \boxed{} strawberry (or strawberries).

Explanation:

Step1: Divide total strawberries by per - container count

To find the number of containers, we divide the total number of strawberries (2153) by the number of strawberries per container (6). So we calculate \(2153\div6\).
When we perform the division \(2153\div6\), we get a quotient of 358 and a remainder of 5. This is because \(6\times358 = 2148\) and \(2153-2148 = 5\).

Step2: Determine the answer and remainder usage

The question is asking for the number of containers that have 6 strawberries. So we use the quotient (358) as the number of containers with 6 strawberries. The remainder (5) is the number of strawberries left, which means the last container (the one with the remainder) has 5 strawberries, but it doesn't have 6, so we don't count it as a container with 6 strawberries.

Answer:

Rory filled \(\boldsymbol{358}\) containers of strawberries. The \(\boldsymbol{\text{quotient}}\) was used as the answer. The last container only has \(\boldsymbol{5}\) strawberry (or strawberries).