Question

Today, both the soccer team and the basketball team had games. The soccer team plays every 4 days and the basketball team plays every 5 days.

Answer 1

20

Explanation:

Assuming you are referring to the day that both teams would play on the same day, it would be the 20th.

There are two ways you can do it.

1. List out the multiples of each number

2. multiply the two days together

If you want to do it the first way it would look like this...

5 10 15 20

4 8 12 16 20

When you do it like this it shows you that the 20th day is the day they would both play together

If you want to do it the second way it would look like this...

4th day X 5th day = 20th day

Either way you solve the problem you get the same answer, this may not work for every problem like this, but it works for this particular one