A debate competition has participants from three different schools: 15 from James Elementary, 18 from George Washington University, and 12 from the MLK Jr. Academy. All teams must have the same number of students. Each team can have only students from the same school. How many students can be on each team?

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Wagner

29 November, 20:45

A debate competition has participants from three different schools: 15 from James Elementary, 18 from George Washington University, and 12 from the MLK Jr. Academy. All teams must have the same number of students. Each team can have only students from the same school. How many students can be on each team?

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Kailee Weiss · Answer 1

Is the answer not 12?

If their only limitation is that they need equal numbers then it they can have 12.

Even though JE and GWU and more then 12 students they arent allowed to swap so the maximum that MLK Jr can have is only ever going to be 12