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JimmyTheWig

RidgeRider wrote: »

98% too. Quite happy with that but the question about the coach is ambiguous.
"A coach can take 52 passengers. For every 6 children there needs to be at least one adult. What is the maximum number of children on the coach? Answers are 42,44,45 or 49."
The driver is an adult so 45 kids or the driver isn't a passenger so 44 kids?

silvercar wrote: »

6 children + 1 adult = 7 seats occupied.

x 7

42 children + 7 adults = 49 seats occupied.

I answered the same as silvercar. Got it wrong. Convinced myself that they'd got it wrong.
But the answer is 44.
Driver doesn't count.
As silvercar says, 7 adults supervising 42 children take up 49 seats.
That leaves 3 spare seats. Which are taken by one more adult and two more children.
So 44 children and 8 adults.

FatVonD

83, quite disappointed, I thought I was good at maths!

Hutchch0920

99 for me, I tripped up on the coach question too! I was thinking of the set amount of children as one unit, rather than being able to have less children per adult.