A company printed 50,427 flyers for its sales people. Each sales person received the same number of flyers. How many sales people could there be?
Select all the possible numbers.
9
2
5
3
A company printed 50,427 flyers for its sales people. Each sales person received the same number of flyers. How many sales people could there be?
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To find out how many sales people there could be, we need to determine the divisors of 50,427. We will check if each option (9, 2, 5, 3) can divide 50,427 evenly.
1. Dividing by 9:
( 50,427 ÷ 9 = 5,591.888… ) (not an integer)
2. Dividing by 2:
( 50,427 ÷ 2 = 25,213.5 ) (not an integer)
3. Dividing by 5:
( 50,427 ÷ 5 = 10,085.4 ) (not an integer)
4. Dividing by 3:
( 50,427 ÷ 3 = 16,809 ) (an integer)
The only number from your list that is a possible count of sales people is 3.
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