Answer
Each child needs to collect 182 box tops.
Work Step by Step
We know from Exercise #59 that a school would need to collect 100,000 box tops to earn the maximum amount. If a school has 550 children, then each child would need to collect $100000\div 550$ box tops. We divide:
$~~~~~~~~~~~~~~181.8$
$550\overline{)100000.0}$
$~~~~~~~~~~\underline{550}$
$~~~~~~~~~~4500$
$~~~~~~~~~~\underline{4400}$
$~~~~~~~~~~~~~1000$
$~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\underline{550}$
$~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~4500$
$~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\underline{4400}$
$~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~100$
We can stop the division with the remainder of 100 because we only need to round to the nearest whole number:
$181.8\approx 182$ box tops
Thus each child needs to collect 182 box tops.