SOLUTION: A school teacher wanted to share 705 pieces of candy equally between her students. If there are between 6 and 30 students, how many pieces of candy did each child get

SOLUTION: A school teacher wanted to share 705 pieces of candy equally between her students. If there are between 6 and 30 students, how many pieces of candy did each child get

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Question 983440: A school teacher wanted to share 705 pieces of candy equally between her students. If there are between 6 and 30 students, how many pieces of candy did each child get
Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Need factors of 705 between 6 and 30
5 and 141; 141 is 3 and 47
Therefore 15 and 47 are factors, and 47 is prime.
each student got 47 pieces of candy, and there were 15 students.
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