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7.1 Exercise 32

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Child care Serena wants to open a licensed child care center. Her state requires that there be no more than 1212 children for each teacher. She would like her child care center to serve 4040 children.

  1. ⓐ How many teachers will be needed?

  2. ⓑ Why must the answer be a whole number?

  3. ⓒ Why shouldn't you round the answer the usual way?

OpenStax Prealgebra 2e, 7.1 Rational and Irrational Numbers, exercise 32

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