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12. School guidelines require that there must be at least 2 chaperones for every 25 students going on a school trip. How many chaperon
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School guidelines require that there must be at least 2 chaperones for every 25 students going on a school trip. How many chaperones must there be for 53 students?
2 chaperones
27 chaperones
5 chaperones
4 chaperones
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Answer:
6
chaperones will be needed.
Step-by-step explanation:
1 to 25 students require (at least) 2 chaperones.
26 to 50 students require (at least) 4 chaperones.
51 to 75 students require (at least) 6 chaperones.
This is an example of use of the ceiling function.
The ceiling of a value
x
(sometimes written as
⌈
x
⌉
) is defined as the smallest integer greater than or equal to
x
.
In the given example we are asked for
XXX
2
×
⌈
53
25
⌉
XXXXXXXXX
which is
6