Question

Mr.Ramirez teaches dance. He has 16 sixth-grade students and 24 seventh-grade students. He wants to put the students in equal groups. Each group will have students of only one grade level. How many students should be in each group? How many of each group will be there?

Answer 1

Mr. Ramirez can use many different group sizes, but the largest group size possible is 8.  This results in 16/8=2 sixth-grade groups and 24/8=3 seventh-grade groups.