Reclaiming Chaos Compound #7

The director is scheduling future missions of teams of Math Spies to complete.  She currently has 96 spies on her roster and she wants to organize them into equal groups.  What are the ways she could organize the spies into teams?  What ways work if she wants less than 10 teams?

Reclaiming Chaos Compound #6

Tabitha is stocking some canned goods in the pantry.  She has 90 cans to arrange.  How many ways can she organize the cans in even rows and columns?

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Reclaiming Chaos Compound #5

Elisha is arranging the boxes of supplies on shelves in the storeroom.  If he needs to distribute the 84 boxes equally on the shelves, what are some possible ways he can organize the boxes?
(Think factor pairs.)

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Reclaiming Chaos Compound #4

Teresa loves to grow vegetables and she is planning a garden to provide food for the Math Spies on the island.  She has 72 vegetable starts to plant in even rows.  What are all the ways she can plant 72 starts in even rows?

 
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Reclaiming Chaos Compound #3

Ralph wants to create an orchard on the island where Chaos Compound is located.  He has sixty fruit trees and wants to plant them in equal straight rows.  What are all of the possible ways he could plant the fruit trees?

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Reclaiming Chaos Compound #2

Tiffany has been given the responsibility of arranging the data cards on a bulletin board.  If there are 48 cards, how many ways can Tiffany display the cards in even rows and columns.  (Hint: think factor pairs of 48.)

 
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Reclaiming Chaos Compound #1

Math Spies is reclaiming Chaos Compound and turning it into the new Math Spies headquarters.  Mikey's job is to arrange 36 portraits on a wall in the Math Spies' Hall of Fame.  All of the portraits are the same size and should be arranged in even columns and rows.  What are all of the ways that Mikey can arrange the portraits?  (Hint: What are the factor pairs of 36?)

 
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Reclaiming Chaos Compound -- Introduction

After Col. Chaos abandoned Chaos Compound, Math Spies bought it from the bank.  Now it is time to clean up the mess, inventory the supplies, and turn it into the new Math Spies Headquarters.  Over the next several weeks the problems you will solve as a Math Spy involve skill in multiplication.

Some of the problems require finding factor pairs of a certain number.  For example the factor pairs for 24 are 1 X 24, 2 X 12,
3 X 8, 4 X 6, 8 X 3, 12 X 2, and 24 X 1.  Other problems requiring multiplying a double-digit number times a double-digit number.

Work hard and you will succeed.

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