Afurniture store needs a total of 250 small pencils in stock for its customers to use at they browse the store. the store already has 108 pencils and needs to buy more. each pack contains 16 pencils. what is the minimum number of packs the store should buy?

9 Packs

Step-by-step explanation:

Given

Number of pencils required =250

Already available pencils=108

So the store actually needs 250 – 108 = 142 penils

Pencils per pack=16

So,

Number of packs for 142 pencils=142/16

=8.87 Packs

As the number of packs cannot be in decimal, it will be rounded off to next integer.  

Total number of pencil pack the store needs to buy=9  ..