On a bulletin board, the principal Me. Gomez, put 115 photos of the fourth-grade students in her school. She put the photos in 5 equal rows. How many photos did she put in each row?

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Jim G.
Dec 13, 2016

#23#

Explanation:

What we have to do here is #color(blue)"divide"# 115 by 5

#rArr115÷5" or " 115/5#

#rArrcancel(115)^(23)/cancel(5)^1=23larr" cancel using 5"#

#" Hence there are 23 photos in each row"#

#color(red)"As a check"#

#"5 rows of 23 photos" =5xx23=115#

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