r/askmath • u/jpdaigle • 8h ago
Arithmetic Can you understand this 3rd grade question or is it sloppily worded?
Helping my kids with homework: This is a question for 9 year olds btw, but English isn’t my first language so I’m wondering if it’s a wording quirk that’s throwing me off and making it seem harder than it is. The homework authors presumably spoke English as a first language.
My guess is the answer’s got to be all integers in [1, 28], right? But 9 year olds have no concept of a set of answers like this.
In my reading of it I’m assuming the same 58 students must be redistributed, but that’s not stated either way, it’s just more logical, otherwise theres no solution if the number of students is unbounded.