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masterdillon
masterdillon
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A is planting flower seeds in flower pots. If she plants 144 seeds and she plants six seeds in each flower pot, how many flower pots are used?

you have to figure out it sub or add or div

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Posted by masterdillon on Saturday February 21, 2009 at 1:46 PM and tagged with division, math, word problems.

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  1. santari

    There are a total of 144 seeds, and each pot has 6 seeds, so this is a division problem:

    144/6 = 24

    She uses 24 pots.

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    Posted by santari on Saturday February 21, 2009 at 1:51 PM


  2. afi80fl Teacher
    High School - 10th Grade

    The first bit of information you need to know is how many seeds you have in all.  From the word problem, you know you have 144 seeds.  Next, you know you need to put 6 seeds in each pot.  So, what you'll want to do is divide the number of seeds you want in each pot (6) into the total number of seeds you have (144).  Set up your problem like this: 

    144/6

    Then, you'll discover that the quotient (answer to a division problem, or in this case, the number of pots she'll use) is 24.

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    Posted by afi80fl on Saturday February 21, 2009 at 2:06 PM

  3. ajmckinley
    ajmckinley Teacher
    Elementary / Primary

    There are 2 ways to solve this problem. You can draw a picture putting six seeds in each flower pot unitl you reach 144 and the answer would be how many flower pots you used. That is the long way to solve the problem. Or you can divide 6 into 144 using long division. 6 goes into 14 2 times, 14 minus 12 equals 2, bring down the 4 which makes 24, 6 goes into 24 4 times so the answer is 24 pots.

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    Posted by ajmckinley on Sunday March 22, 2009 at 12:15 PM