We (Evan and Garnet), started the project by writing and consolidating all the information written

on the handout on a separate piece of paper. We then tried finding the answer to the problem by
finding multiples of 2. Then we realized how inefficient that method was so we instead found
multiples of 7 to go by. We only used the multiples of 7 that were odd number because there
had to be one extra number (egg) excluded from the calculations. For example 135 divided by 7
is an even number making it a multiple of 7. Then 135 must be taken down to 134 for the rest of
the calculations because for the combinations of 2,3,4,5, and 6 there is one egg always left
over. In this certain test we found that 2,3,4, and 7 are multiples of 134 while 5 and 6 are not.
Therefore the idea that 135 is the total amount of eggs is not correct. We guessed and checked
our work for quite a while until we found that is was more efficient ways of doing this. We found
that finding common multiples of 2,3,4,5 and 6 was easier because it narrowed down our
possibilities and made it so we only had divided the common multiple by 7 to see if the answer
was correct. Of course we had to add 1 to our common multiple because all of the combinations
of eggs (2,3,4,5 and 6) had one egg left over, while 7 was distributed evenly. We found that out
of our common multiples (61,121,181,241,301,361,421,481,541, 601 etc) that 301 was the
correct amount of eggs she had. Here is our reasoning, all 2,3,4,5, and 6 go into 300 evenly
(subtracting one for the left out egg) and 7 goes into 301 an even amount of times (43 times to
be exact.) The work we did ony paper is a little rough but is how we found the answer to this
egg problem.