Question

A football coach divides 42 players into equal groups for a warmup drill. Each group should have at least 5 players but no more than 8 players. What are the possible group sizes?

Answer 1

7 groups of 6
6 groups of 7

Answer 2

6 groups of 7 students each.

7 groups of 6 students each.

Explanation:

Let x represent number of groups.

We have been given a football coach divides 42 players into equal groups for a warm-up drill.

Each group should have at least 5 players but no more than 8 players.

We can see that there could be 6 groups having 7 students in each group or 7 groups having 6 students in each group. These are possible groups because 6 is greater than 5 and 7 is less than 8.

Therefore, the possible groups would be 6 groups of 7 students each or 7 groups of 6 students each.