Question

For Field Day, the 72 students in fourth grade will be divided into tears with the same number of students on each team. The 60 students in third grade will be divided into teams that each have the same number of students as the fourth grade teams. What is the largest number of students that a team could have? Help meeee​

Answer 1

Here, we have to see what the greatest common factor between 60 and 72 could be.
We do this because the factors are the numbers determining the number of people and the number of teams, for example if they used the factors 6 and 10 for 60, they would make 6 teams of 10 people. And since factors are whole numbers, it makes sense for people and doesn’t cut ppl in half.
So the greatest factor that 72 and 60 gave have in common is 12, bc 5 x 12 is 60 and 6 x 12 is 72, and they don’t have other factors in common that are higher than 12.
This means that 12 is the answer, bc it’s the largest number of students that a team could have, in both the fourth and third grades.