Answer:
Step-by-step explanation:
What this question is asking of you is what is the greatest common divisor of 12 and 15. Or, what is the biggest number that divides both 12 and 15.
in order to find this we have to split each number into it's prime components.
for 12 they are 2,2 and 3 (
2
⋅
2
⋅
3
=
12
)
and for 15 they are 3 and 5 (
3
⋅
5
=
15
)
Out of those two groups (2,2,3) and (3,5) the only thing in common is 3, so 3 is the greatest common divisor. That tells us that the greatest number of groups that can exist and have the same number of girls and the same number of boys for each group is 3.
Now to find out how many girls and boys there are going to be in each group we divide the totals by 3, so:
12
3
=
4
girls per group, and
15
3
=
5
boys per group.
(just as a thought exercise, if there were 16 boys, the divisors would have been (2,2,3) and (2,2,2,2), leaving us with 4 groups [
2
⋅
2
] of 3 girls [12/4] and 4 boys [16/4] )
Complete question :
designs a board game in which a card is drawn on each turn. • A blue card means move forward 4 squares. • A red card means move back 6 squares. Liam suggests adding some other cards to Sia's game Part A Liam explains that drawing a yellow card is equivalent to drawing a blue card followed by a red card. How many spaces forward or backward does a player move after drawing a yellow card? Justify your answer.
Answer:
2 squares backward
Step-by-step explanation:
Given the rule :
Blue card = 4 squares forward
Red card = 6 squares backward
Yellow card = drawing a blue followed by a red
Spaces moved after drawing a yellow card:
Yellow equals :
Blue = + 4 squares ; then
Red = - 6 squares
Net total movement :
Blue + red
+4 + (-6)
4 - 6
- 2
2 squares backward
Answer:
Neither
Step-by-step explanation:
Parallel must have the same slope.
Perpendicular must have reciprocal slopes.
These two contain neither.
