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General mathematics problem. Need help.

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Swapnil
 
Reply Sun 22 Sep, 2013 03:46 am
A charitable trust donates 28 different books of maths, 16 different books of science and 12 different books of social science to the poor students. Each student is given maximum number of books of only one subject of their interest and each student got equal number of books.
1) Find the no. of books each student got.
2) Find the no. of students who got books.
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gungasnake
 
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Reply Sun 22 Sep, 2013 04:05 am
@Swapnil,
Not enough information. You'd at least need to know the number of poor students.
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Kolyo
 
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Reply Sun 22 Sep, 2013 09:29 pm
@Swapnil,
The question is poorly worded. Looks like it's asking us to consider scenarios where each student who got books got them from one subject area, and where all students who got books got the same number. Out of those scenarios we're then supposed to consider the one that maximizes the number of books each student receives.

If that's true, the answers are 4 and 14.
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