SOLUTION: School guidelines required that they must be at least two Chaperones for every 25 students going on a school trip how many Caperones must there be for 80 students

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Question 1116449: School guidelines required that they must be at least two Chaperones for every 25 students going on a school trip how many Caperones must there be for 80 students
Found 2 solutions by ikleyn, stanbon:
Answer by ikleyn(52778) About Me  (Show Source):
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Since the ratio  80%2F25 is between 3 and 4, at least 4*2 = 8 Chaperones are required (are needed) for 80 students, according to the school guidelines.

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    Actually, these guidelines are uncompleted:

    While they establish the rule for every 25 students, they say nothing for the number of students in the range from 1 to 24.

    From the point of view of SOLVING the given problem, this uncompletenes is FATAL, and, formally speaking, 
    does not allow to solve the problem without additional assumptions.


Answer by stanbon(75887) About Me  (Show Source):
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School guidelines required that they must be at least two Chaperones for every 25 students going on a school trip how many Chaperones must there be for 80 students.
Ans: 80/25 = 3.2
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There are 3.2 sets of 35 students.
# of Chaperones must be either 2*3 = 6 or 2*3+1 = 7
Cheers,
Stan H.
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