Question

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

Answer 1

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.