Gnment Uh oh! The Titanic has begun to sink and you are in charge of
distributing women and babies into lifeboats for safety. Each lifeboat
has eight women who can each hold one baby. There are one hundred
forty-seven babies in the nursery that need to be distributed into
lifeboats. How many lifeboats will you need to save the babies? Is
this partition or fair share?

Scenario: susan wants to make 2 square flags to sell at a crafts fair. the fabric she wants to buy is 3 meters wide. she doesn't want any fabric left over. what's the least amount of fabric she should buy? question: which equation will susan solve her problem? note: let x represent the length of 1 side of the flag. options: 1) 2x^2 = 4x 2) 8 +2x = 2(4x) 3) 2 * 2 = 4 * 2 4) 4x^2 -2x = 0