SOLUTION: How many houses can 10 people build if: a) it takes a team of 3 people to build each house, and b) each person can work on up to six houses.

Question 874069: How many houses can 10 people build if:
a) it takes a team of 3 people to build each house, and
b) each person can work on up to six houses.
Answer by KMST(5328) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
At most, each person works on houses,
and each of the people will tell you
"I built houses."
If you multiply, you may think that houses were built.
However, since each house was build by a team of people,
that you calculated includes each house counted times
(counted once for each of the people in the team that built that house).
The number of houses built is really of .
It is
.

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Those people leave no challenge unanswered.
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(I would ask this one at the middle school level),
and the explanation may be hard for you to understand.
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