Question

How many pennies could you have if: When you break the pennies into groups of 2, you have 1 penny left over, AND when you break the pennies into groups of 3, you have 1 penny left over, AND when you break the pennies into groups of 5, you have 1 penny left over?

Answer 1

31 pennies

Explanation:

Given that:

Breaking the number of pennies into 2 groups, there is 1 penny left over.

Breaking the pennies into 3 groups, there is 1 penny left over.

Breaking the pennies into 5 groups, there is 1 penny left over.

Breaking the pennies into groups implies that the same number of pennies are in each group for each case. Since there is no restriction to the number of pennies in the groups for all cases, then the total number of pennies would be 31.

So that;

31 = 15 + 15 + 1 = 2 groups + 1

31 = 10 + 10 + 10 + 1 = 3 groups + 1

31 = 6 + 6 + 6 + 6 + 6 + 1 = 5 groups + 1

There are 31 pennies.