A soccer store can ship 7 soccer balls in each box. How many boxes are needed to ship 81 soccer balls?

The 81 balls need to be split into some number of boxes. To figure out how many boxes, we can divide the 81 balls by the 7 ball capacity of a single box.

81/7 = 11.571

This means that we will need 11 full boxes, but there will be a remainder of balls which did not fit. Since we can't have a fraction of a box, we need to round up to 12 boxes to hold all 81 balls.

The answer is 12 boxes.