Question

Students were divided into 10 teams with 12 on each team. later, the same day students were divided into teams with 3 on each team. how many teams were there then?

Answer 1

At first, the students were divided into 10 teams with 12 on each of them; we can write this as:

team 1 = 12 students

team 2 = 12 students

team 3 = 12 students

team 4 = 12 students

team 5 = 12 students

team 6 = 12 students

team 7 = 12 students

team 8 = 12 students

team 9 = 12 students

team 10 = 12 students

Sum up the number all the students and this adds up to: 120 students.

Then, the question says these 120 students were divided into teams with 3 students on each team.

This time the number of teams created will be more.

team 1 = 3 students

team 2 = 3 students

teams 3 = 3 students

...

And so on.

In order to get the number of teams, we simply divide the number of students by the number of students in a team.

`(120)/(3)=40\text{ teams}`

Therefore, the number of 3 person teams are 40 teams