On training in a football club there were 225 children and 105 balls. The children were split in few equal groups. The coaches gave to each group equal number of balls. How many groups were formed and how many balls did every group get? How many solutions does the problem have?
Solution
The common divisors of and are , , and . Each of these numbers can represent the number of groups that can be formed from the children in order for each group to get equal number of balls. So the problem has solutions:
- group with children and balls
- groups with children and balls each
- groups with children and balls each
- groups with children and balls each.
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