Question

a day care center has 52 children each teacher has the same number of children, how many children could teacher at the center have? ​

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Given:

Given that, a day care center consists of 52 children and each teacher have the same number of children.

To find:

We should find the number of children could teacher have in that day care center.

Solution:

According to the question, a day care center consists of 52 children and each teacher have the same number of children.

To find the number of children could a teacher have, we need to find the factors of 52.

Factors of 52 are eqaul to 1, 2, 4, 13, 26, 52.

So,

1 × 52 = 52 $\rightarrow$ 1 teacher with 52 children $\rightarrow$ Not possible (Because teacher cannot handle that many children at once)

52 × 1 = 52 $\rightarrow$ 52 teachers with 1 children $\rightarrow$ Not possible (Because we will not hire 52 teachers)

2 × 26 = 52 $\rightarrow$ 2 teachers with 26 children $\rightarrow$ Possible

26 × 2 = 52 $\rightarrow$ 26 teachers with 2 children $\rightarrow$ Not possible (Because we will not hire 26 teachers)

4 × 13 = 52 $\rightarrow$ 4 teachers with 13 children $\rightarrow$ Possible

13 × 4 = 52 $\rightarrow$ 13 teacher with 4 children $\rightarrow$ Not possible (Because we will not hire 26 teachers)

Therefore, each teacher can have 13 or 26 children.