Mr. Sawicki has 47 seashells in his collection. He keeps them in containers that can each hold 3 seashells. How many containers can he fill completely? Solve on paper. Check your work on Zearn. Mr. Sawicki can fill containers completely with his seashells.

15 containers

Step-by-step explanation:

Each container can hold 3 seashells but he has 47 seashells in his collection.

The number of containers that can take these shells is;

= 47 / 3

= 15.67

The number of containers that he can fill up completely is 15 containers.

After 15 containers, he will only be able to fill up 0.67 of the next container.

the answer   is 200

step-by-step explanation:

this is a problem about poisson probabilities.   i don't know if you've

already studied poisson distributions, or if you have a place to look

to read more about the subject.  

here's how you can see a poisson distribution coming.   when there are

a lot of events that may happen at any time (or any place), and when

you're counting how many of them happen at a particular time (or a

particular place), and each event is independent of the others, then

the result is a poisson distribution.   this is roughly true for the

chocolate chips; one chip being in a cookie has only a small effect on

the probability that another chip will be in the cookie.

once you know you have a poisson distribution, you know a lot.   there

is only one parameter to a poisson distribution, so if you know the

mean, you know everything.   the form of the distribution is

  probability of n chips = {[e^(-x)]*(x^n)} / (n! )

1696 hundred thousand

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