You must love baseball

         Problem of the week

                Problem C

       You must love baseball!

What I know:

- 30 students in class

- 21 baseball fans

- 9 non baseball fans

- atleast 1baseball and non baseball fan is absent

- more than half the class is present

- asking baseball fan is 3/4

- find the LCM 

- 21/30 fans 9/30 non fans

- How many students were absent that particular morning?

Find the LCM

LCM for 21- 1,3,7,21

LCM for 9- 1,3,9

LCM for 30- 1,2,3,5,6,10,15,30

3 is the LCM fOr all of the numbers

Some factors tht equal 3/4

12 / 4=3

16 /4=4

15/ 5= 3

20 /5= 4

18/6=3

24/6=4

The first 3 are possible solutions because it shows that 4,5,6 students are absent and is less then the half the class- 3/4.

21/7=3

28/7=4

This is not possible because it shows that there wee no baseball fans absent.

Conclusion

In conclusion I bed more information to find one answer to the problem because I am getting 3 possible solutions which are 4,5,6 of students begin absent that particular morning. So therefore, I have 3 possible solution and need only one that is correct for how many student are absent that day. I need Jay Fann to give me one or two more clues to get the 1 possible answer.