32 miners need to ride the elevator to the bottom of the mine. The elevator can hold 3 miners at a time. How many trips will the elevator need to make?

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32 miners need to ride the elevator to the bottom of the mine. The elevator can hold 3 miners at a time. How many trips will the elevator need to make?

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Answer 1 · 2018-05-10T17:40:53

$\Rightarrow 11$ $=>11$ trips

Explanation:

We have $32$ $32$ total miners. The elevator takes $3$ $3$ miners at a time.

If we divide our total by the number of miners per trip, that will give us the number of trips:

$\frac{32}{3} = 10 r 2$ $32 / 3 = 10 " r " 2$

So the elevator will make $10$ $10$ trips, but then there will still be $2$ $2$ miners remaining. So even though the elevator will not be full, we need $1$ $1$ additional trip to take the remaining $2$ $2$ miners.

So the total number of trips needed is $11$ $11$ .

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32 miners need to ride the elevator to the bottom of the mine. The elevator can hold 3 miners at a time. How many trips will the elevator need to make?

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