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title: "Sharing Fairly"
description: "Math story: 60 divided by 6 is 10, 36 divided by 6 is 6. That's 16 cartons. 144 candies are shared among 8 children. How many does each child get?"
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# Sharing Fairly

Math story 72 · Word problems · Grade 4 · 0:39

## Read the story

At the market there are 96 eggs. Each carton holds 6 eggs.

How many cartons get filled? We do 96 divided by 6.

60 divided by 6 is 10, 36 divided by 6 is 6. That's 16 cartons.

**144 candies are shared among 8 children. How many does each child get?**

## Answer and working

Correct! 80 divided by 8 is 10, 64 divided by 8 is 8. Each child gets 18.

`144 ÷ 8 = 18`