The ratio of boys to girls in the entire 6th grade is 3 to 2. Given this ratio, which two class compositions are possible?
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Answer:
Yes, he earned a Varsity letter because he played in 61% of the games.
Step-by-step explanation:
To know the percent of games he played out of the total, we can do it by dividing the games he played by the total of games and multiply this by 100% to get the percent of games he played:
We solve:
0.611111*100% = 61.11%
So we know that he earned a letter because he played in 61.11% of the games, more than he needed.
When , we have
and of course 3 | 6. ("3 divides 6", in case the notation is unfamiliar.)
Suppose this is true for , that
Now for , we have
so we know the left side is at least divisible by by our assumption.
It remains to show that
which is easily done with Fermat's little theorem. It says
where is prime and
is any integer. Then for any positive integer
,
Furthermore,
which goes all the way down to
So, we find that
QED