Mr. Marcus is splitting a huge new pack of colored pencils equally among his 25 students. After splitting the pencils he has 4 left. If there were 429 pencils to begin with, how many did each student receive?

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Answer:

17 pencils

Step-by-step explanation:

He started with 429 and and had 4 left after the equal splitting.

So he basically split:

429 - 4 = 425 pencils

He split 425 pencils EQUALLY among 25 students. So, each got the same amount. How much?? To figure this out, we divide total pencils split (425) by the number of students (25). So we have:

425/25 = 17

Thus,

Each student got 17 pencils