A man had 43 sheep. he wanted to divide them equally among his 6 children. How many sheep shall he keep to himself, so as to equally divide remaining sheep among his 6 children?
A
7
B
5
C
4
D
2
E
8
Correct answer: A
Explanation
Since he has 43 sheep and 6 children. The nearest number divisible by 6 is 42. So he would keep 1 sheep for himself and give 7 sheep to each child. So option A is correct.
Source: Algebra word problems from the AQuA-RAT dataset (Ling et al., 2017), published by Google DeepMind under the Apache License 2.0.
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