It takes 42 cherries to make an cherry pie. If a chef bought 444 cherries, the last pie would need how many more cherries?

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Sayani R. · Shwetank Mauria
Mar 31, 2016

He would need #18# more cherries.

Explanation:

Each cherry pie requires #42# cherries.

Now, the chef has #444# cherries. He will have to divide them into groups of #42# cherries. So, we divide #444# by #42#.

#42xx10=420#

So, #10# pies would need #420# cherries. We have #444-420=24# cherries left.

To make the #11^(th)# pie we need #42# cherries out of which we have #24# cherries. Therefore, we need, #42-24=18# more cherries for the last pie.

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