Question

Solve by simplifying the problem. There are 18 students in Mr. Alvarez’s art class. Throughout the year, every student must pair up with every other student to complete a project. How many projects will be finished?

Answer 1

work it out for me please

Answer 2

just set it up i should be able to figure it out by then

Answer 3

If there are 18 kids and one of them is you, how many kids are there left for you to work with?

Answer 4

17

Answer 5

then what

Answer 6

if every student has to make one project with all the other students. there will be 17 projects that need to be done for each student. For every project, there will be 9 pairs of students. So 17 projects x 9 pairs = 153 project will be finished...

Answer 7

Yep!

Answer 8

omg thank you i feel like an idiot ..sat on this question for 15 mins. :( and it was just a brain fart thank you for the help

Answer 9

:-)

Answer 10

It's ok. It happens. ;)