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Stage 3 - Problem 4

Problem: Fill the Tables

Strand: Working Mathematically

Outcome: WMS3.2

Due: Wednesday 6 May

tables
Briony is on a bus trip, which stops for lunch at a cafe, which has tables for three or five people. There are 37 passengers on the bus. How can they be seated at these tables so that no single table has empty seats?
Find ANOTHER way they could be seated?

Is there any number of passengers (between 20 & 30) for which NO arrangement of people in 3’s and 5’s can be made?

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