Question

Ryan solved the problem above. He says there are 6 groups of 6 students and 1 group of 5 students. What did Ryan do wrong? 7. If you wanted to find the number of groups of 6 students if Mr. Bell’s and Ms Holtz’s classes were combined, could you use the same strategy you used in Exercise 5 explain

Answer 1

6. Critique reasoning

Ryan added the total number of students in Mr . Bell's and Ms. Ridley's classes wrongly.

7. Generalize

`\begin{gathered} \text{Total number of students in Mr. Bell's and Ms. Holtz's class =}24+17=41 \\ \text{Let N be the number of groups of 6 students.} \\ \text{Thus,} \\ 6\text{ }*\text{ N = 41} \\ N\text{ = }(41)/(6) \\ \Rightarrow N=\text{ 6 groups of 6 students and 1 group of 5 students} \end{gathered}`