Relay races called for 8 people on a team. There were 43 men and 34 women who wanted to race. How many teams could be formed? how many more people were needed for another team

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Cortez Mckenzie

Mathematics

17 July, 17:19

Relay races called for 8 people on a team. There were 43 men and 34 women who wanted to race. How many teams could be formed? how many more people were needed for another team

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Libby · Answer 1

It would be an odd number of teams. What I did was add 43 and 34 together. Which gave me 77. So 77 people total wanted to race. There can only be 8 racers on each team. Each means to divide. So I divided 8 and 77. It gave me 9 with a remainder of 5. So there will e 9 teams and 5 racers left out.