document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=987037>Question 987037</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> Ms. Francis is planning a birthday party for her daughter. There will be 22 children at the party and in order to seat them all she needs to rent square card tables. Only 1 child can sit at each side of a card table.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Ms. Francis wants to arrange the tables in a rectangular shape so they look like one large table. The room is large enough that the rectangle can be made with more than one row of tables.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "How many different arrangements can ms. Francis make to seat all 22 children ?<BR>\n" );
document.write( "What is the smallest number of tables that ms. Francis needs to rent? </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "Ms. Francis wants to arrange the tables in a rectangular shape so they look like one large table. The room is large enough that the rectangle can be made with more than one row of tables. <BR>\n" );
document.write( "How many different arrangements can ms. Francis make to seat all 22 children ?<BR>\n" );
document.write( "What is the smallest number of tables that ms. Francis needs to rent?<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Thinking thru the problem<BR>\n" );
document.write( "1 table seats 4-----1 arrangement<BR>\n" );
document.write( "2 tables seat 6-----1 arrangement<BR>\n" );
document.write( "3 tables seat 8-----1 arrangement <BR>\n" );
document.write( "4 tables seat 10----<BR>\n" );
document.write( "5 tab;es seat 12<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "10 tables seat 22<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Cheers,<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Stan H.<BR>\n" );
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