In order to play a certain game, 24 players must be split into n teams, with each team having an equal number of players. If there are more than two teams, and if each team has more than two players, how many teams are there?

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Derek Barron

8 June, 00:06

In order to play a certain game, 24 players must be split into n teams, with each team having an equal number of players. If there are more than two teams, and if each team has more than two players, how many teams are there?

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Mookie · Answer 1

The answer has 4 possible solutions as below:

8 teams with 3 players

6 teams with 4 players

4 teams with 6 players

3 teams with 8 players

Step-by-step explanation:

First we need to decide number of groups that could be possibly created:

24, 12, 8, 6, 4, 3, 2, 1

We know that there are more than two teams and each team have more that 2 players than 24, 12, 2 and 1 teams are eliminated.

So there are three possible solution is exist for this problem:

8 teams with 3 players

6 teams with 4 players

4 teams with 6 players

3 teams with 8 players