The brass section of a marching band has 24 members. The band director arranges the brass section in rows. Each row has the same number of members. How many possible arrangement are there?
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10 rows.
Step-by-step explanation:
In the given problem, "as many musicians as possible" expresses the greatest common factor.
In this case, the greatest common factor between 24 and 56 is 8, because that's the higher factor that can give 24 and 56 from a product, specifically, 3(8) = 24 and 7(8) = 56.
So, if we divide each number by the greatest common factor, we would have
That is, there would be 3 rows of trombone players, and 7 rows of trumpet players. In total, there will be 10 rows where in each rows musicians play the same instrument.
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