Question

Scenario: There are 60 boys and 72 girls in a school. The principal wants to divide the students into gender-specific groups (all boys or all girls) of the largest possible size. Each group needs to have the same number of students. What is the correct size of each group?

Answer 1

Answer: Hence, the correct size of boys group is 5 and girls is 6.

Step-by-step explanation:

Since we have given that

Number of boys = 60

Number of girls = 72

We need to divide the students into gender specific groups of the largest possible size.

For this we will find "HCF of 60 and 72" which is equal to "12".

So, the correct size of each group is 12 in which number of boys would be $\dfrac{60}{12}=5$

Number of girls would be $\dfrac{72}{12}=6$

Hence, the correct size of boys group is 5 and girls is 6.