Gary found 72 shells and 40 coins at the beach. He wants to give them to some of his friends. Each friend will receive the same number of shells and the same number of coins. What is the greatest number of friends Gary can give shells and coins to? How many shells will each friend receive? How many coins? Select your answers from the drop-down lists.

what are you trying find out?

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we have

using a graphing tool

see the attached figure

this is a quadratic equation (vertical parabola) open up

the vertex is a > vertex

the domain of the function is all real > interval (-∞,∞)

the range of the function is the > [-6.125,∞)

the function has two x->   and

the function is increasing over the > (0.25,∞)

the function is decreasing over the > (-∞,0.25)

your answer is b.

x = 33.9

y = 65.6

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