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twenty-eight girls and 25 boys signed up for the team challenge. Each team needs to have an equal number of girls and boys what is the greatest number of teams possible?

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so each team must have have the same number of boys as girls
the way to get the most teams is to have the least people on them
the min per team is 1 boy and 1 girl

25 is less than 28 so the limit is 25
there are only25 boys so the max number is 25 teams
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