Question

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Ying was planning how to seat guests at a dinner. There were between 50 and 100 people coming. Ying noticed that they could be seated with 8 people to a table and no seats left empty. She also noticed that they could be seated with 12 people to a table with no seats left empty. How many people were coming?

Answer 1

96 people were coming

Explanation:

In this question, we want to determine the number of people who were coming to the party.

First of all, we were made to know that this number is between 50 and 100. So whatever figure we will be giving as answer will be something within that range.

We were told that if 8 or 12 people sat at a table, there would be no remainder left. So basically what we need to do here is to calculate the highest multiple of 8 and 12 which is between 50 and 100.

we could have 24, 48 and 96 as multiples of both. But that multiple that sits between 50 and 100 is 96. So therefore, our answer is 96.