There are 15 Blue Jays and 14 Orioles that wish rest on three older trees. Each of the trees will have at least 4 Blue Jays and 2 Orioles However, no tree may have more Orioles than Blue Jays in its branches. Determine the Largest number of birds that can be in one tree

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Amiyah Price

Mathematics

7 March, 03:08

There are 15 Blue Jays and 14 Orioles that wish rest on three older trees. Each of the trees will have at least 4 Blue Jays and 2 Orioles However, no tree may have more Orioles than Blue Jays in its branches. Determine the Largest number of birds that can be in one tree

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Alessandro Bray · Answer 1

Ok. So first, we want to set 4 blue jays and 2 orioles on two of the trees. This gets rid of 8 of the blue jays and 4 of the orioles, leaving 7 blue jays and 10 orioles left to sit on the last tree. However, there would then be more orioles than blue jays on this tree. So just distribute 3 of the orioles to the other trees. Your final bird count on the trees should be:

1: 4 blue jays and 4 orioles

2: 4 blue jays and 3 orioles

3: 7 blue jays and 7 orioles

Brendon · Answer 2

10 because 15 divided by 3 equals 5 and 14 divided by 3 equals 4 with a remainder of 2. This means there is at least 9 on each tree. There is that two remainder though so two of the three trees will have 5 Blue Jays and 5 Orioles (10 Birds)