There are 256 students in class. How many scoops of ice cream The eight grade class at a certain middle school decided to have an ice cream party to celebrate their outstanding grades. They decided to make ice cream cones. But they were all independent thinkers, and they each wanted to have a different cone.
Unfortunately the school was only willing to provide them with two ice cream flavors, vanilla and chocolate. They knew that if they only used single scopped cones, they could only make two different cones.
They figured that that if they used double-scoop cones, they could make four different cones.
There are 256 students in this outstanding 8th grade class. How many scoops of ice cream would have to be used in each cone in order to make a different cone for each person?