Singing Steve
On my wall I want to put some stickers of my favourite pop star Singing Steve. The space I have available is 55cm by 60cm and the stickers are each 15cm by 5cm. What is the maximum number of stickers I can fit on the wall?
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On my wall I want to put some stickers of my favourite pop star Singing Steve. The space I have available is 55cm by 60cm and the stickers are each 15cm by 5cm. What is the maximum number of stickers I can fit on the wall?
First, we need to count how many can go vertically, this would be 3 since 55/15 = 3 remainder 10. Next we count how many go horizontally. This would be 12 because 60/5 is 12. Now if we do 12 * 3 it is 36 which gives us our answer.
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