Question 8 D Mr. Chen asked each student in his first-grade class to make one greeting card for every other student in the class. Mr. Chen collected the cards from all the students and correctly counted that he collected 200 cards. If r represents the total number of students in Mr. Chen's class, then each student should have made (x - 1) cards and Mr. Chen should have collected a (aI - 1) cards. Which of the following best explains why it is not possible that each student made the correct number of cards? The equationz (x - 1) = 200 does not have real solutions. B The equationa (x - 1) = 200 has one real solution, but the solution is not an integer. The equationz (z-1) = 200 has two real solutions, but neither of the solutions is an integer. D The equationr (-1) 200 has two real solutions, but one of the solutions is not an integer.
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![Question 8 D
Mr. Chen asked each student in his first-grade class to make one greeting card for every other student in the class. Mr. Chen collected the cards from all the students and correctly
counted that he collected 200 cards. If r represents the total number of students in Mr. Chen's class, then each student should have made (x – 1) cards and Mr. Chen should have
collected a (I - 1) cards. Which of the following best explains why it is not possible that each student made the correct number of cards?
A
The equation r (x - 1) = 200 does not have real solutions.
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B
The equation z (x - 1) = 200 has one real solution, but the solution is not an integer.
The equationr (r- 1) =200 has two real solutions, but neither of the solutions is an integer.
The equationr (x- 1)
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