Question

Craig is organizing a neighborhood party for his scout troop. He needs to deliver fliers to all of the houses in the neighborhood. There are 13 streets with 12 houses, 14 streets with 11 hours, and 8 streets with 13 houses. If there are 18 boys in his scout troop helping Craig deliver the fliers, how many fliers should each pair of boys get?

Answer 1

Each pair of boys should get 46 papers.

Explanation:

multiply houses by streets to find the total number of papers:

13(12)=156

15(11)=154

8(13)=104

156+154+104=414

Because it say they will be in pairs you must divide the boys:

18/2=9

Then to find how many papers each boy must take divide total number of papers by the pairs of boys:

414/9=46