[Lucky9teen]

And with Common Core math, people will be dumber than ever.

[Genoa]

Blue

[MortMan]

Juanita should buy a clue so she knows whether she has 4 or 6 friends. ;-P

[MortMan]

4,800 stickers.

It’s not wrong, but isn’t the answer they are asking for, either.

[aquila48]

That’s a joke, right?

[1Old Pro]

0, she should ask the government to provide her the stickers becuase she has a right to stickers.

[grania]

I have THE ANSWER to Juanita's dilemma. The minimum number of packets of stickers she should buy is the Least Common Multiple of 4,6, and the number of friends she has. Any multiple of that LCM has to be included because the question asks how many could she buy, so that whole set of mulitples is the answer to this first step of the solution. But then the question shifted to "how many stickers" so she would have to multiply the number of stickers in each packet by the number of packets she chose from the solution set to find the number of packets. Juanita has to be careful here, though, to be sure that all of the packets have the same number of stickers.

This assumes that Juanita won't have any stickers for herself. It might make her friends feel bad if she didn't also get stickers, so she might consider doing the process using the LCM of 4,6, and the number of friends plus 1.

Nobody with knowledge of variables, set theory, and scalar multiplication should have any trouble with that problem....if they can take a half-hour walk while pondering it. I would also like to point out that in order to get full credit for a correct solution the test taker should include a chart or diagram which illustrates the process.

[Vermont Lt]

Pick one friend, split the stickers with her. The others are not really friends.