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Sheet # 93 Critical Thinking

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Beth has some jelly beans in a bag. Using the following rules, find out how many beans were in the bag?

a) when put in groups of two, one is left over.

b) when put in groups of three, none is left over.

c) when put in groups of five, two are left over.

d) when put in groups of 8, one is left over.


e) the total number of jelly beans is less than 70.

















































Answer for sheet # 93

57 jelly beans

Since it is not evenly divisible by 2, it has to be odd number.
When divided by 5, you get the remainder of 2. It means ones in the number has to be 7 or 2. ( 37, 42, etc.)