Melts in Your Mouth
  • A teacher wants to give each student in her class chocolate candy. She wants everyone to get an equal number of pieces of chocolate. The teacher has less than 100 pieces. If she makes groups of 2, 3, or 4 she will have 1 piece left over. If she uses groups of 5, she will have none left over. What is the least number of pieces of chocolate the teachers has?

Answer:    
  Please enter a numerical answer
(ex. 1000 or 2.033) and click GO.		    

Contest problems and answers provided by:

David Rock
rock_david@colstate.edu
Columbus State University

Doug Brumbaugh
brumbad@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu
University of Central Florida