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The 78 members of the Brookhaven High School Marching Band will be performing in the Independence Day parade on Saturday. Due to the width of teh street they will be marching down, the parade director has recommended that all bands march in rows of 6. Can the whole Brookhaven band be arranged in rows of 6?
2006-12-03 12:57:27 · 7 answers · asked by C.J. W 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
so the question is really asking whether having the band in rows of 6 will have every member of the band in a complete row of 6.. another way to say this is whether 78 is divisible by 6 with no remainder..
78/6 = 13 so yes the band can be arranged in rows of 6
2006-12-03 13:00:33 · answer #1 · answered by Modus Operandi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmm, seems like a no-brainer. Yes is a good answer, but other factors are involved.
1. First of all, this Saturday will be December 9th, so I doubt there'd be an Independence Day Parade, so then the answer would be no because there'd be no reason to be on the street.
2. Different instruments require different amounts of room when carried or rolled. The woodwind section may be able to get 13 in a row, while percussion may only be able to get 8, and the xylophone would take up a quarter of a planned row by itself.
3.There's also the part about the "whole Brookhaven band" being able to be arranged into 6 rows. Earlier in the question only the highschool marching band was mentioned. Any given highschool can have a marching band, concert band, symphonic band, jazz band, lab band, etc. There may also be the Brookhaven Middle School band, which would be included in the general phrase "the whole Brookhaven band". So are there more than 78 members now? This could lead this question to be inconclusive and unanswerable due to wording :D
Maybe I'm a English major too? Correcting the spelling in the question: Mathematicians, think you're all that? Then help me answer this one question.
2006-12-03 21:28:36 · answer #2 · answered by pstategirl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
13 rows of 6
2006-12-03 21:00:56 · answer #3 · answered by winterblues 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
78/6= 13 so yes they can, we will have 13 rows of 6 people in each row. Had it said that he wanted 5 rows, we would have had an uneven number of rows, he would have had 15 of 5 and one of 3
2006-12-03 21:01:27 · answer #4 · answered by Oli V 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, 13 times 6 is 78
Or if you include the director no. 6 doesn't go in 79.
2006-12-03 21:00:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
78/6= 13 rows.
unless the road is very very narrow or if the people in the band are very very fat....I would suggest they march in a single file.
2006-12-03 21:12:25 · answer #6 · answered by Ho S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You needed a mathematician to answer this? Nice job of baiting, however...
2006-12-03 21:12:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋