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A class has less than 30 students.

  1. Exactly 3/4 of them own footballs.
  2. Exactly 7/8 of them own football boots.

    i.How many students are there in the class?

    ii.How many students own both football boots and footballs?

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    There is not enough information: the number could be any of $8$, $16$, or $24$.2012-12-16

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Take the number of students as $x<30$ and take $y$ as the number of students with both football and football boots, then form your equations

  • $\cfrac 34 x$ own footballs
  • $\cfrac 78x$ own football boots
  • $\cfrac 34x + \cfrac 78x -y = x \iff 5x-8y=0 $

Solve the last equation for non negative integer values of $x$ and $y$ less than $30$