Old Tricks
No. 012 · TUESDAY, 3 NOVEMBER 2026 · NUMBERS · ●●○○○

The festival vans

A row of white minivans on a road, each with students waving from the windows, driving towards a school music festival with a banner and music notes. The van at the far left has broken down and has a little smoke coming out.

For the school music festival, every minivan in town is booked to carry the students. Each van carries the same number of students.

Halfway there, 10 vans break down, so every other van has to take one more student.

On the way home, 15 more vans will not start. Now every working van carries three more students than it did in the morning.

How many students went to the festival?

Type a whole number.