The sale at the frozen yogurt shop

[needtoknowmath]

i was walking to school with a group of friends one day last week when Lym found a flier in the gutter which said that Jake's frozen yogurt store was having a half-price sale on cones that afternoon to celebrate its tenth anniversary of being in business. Everybody got all excited because none of us had heard about the sale before, and we all agreed to tell only a few people(who wants to wait in line forever?) During morning recess, each of us told one person. Then during the lunchbreak , everyone who knew at the time told one more person. Finally during the afternoon recess, everyone who knew then told one more person. After school, the 48 people who knew headed directly to the store, and i still had to wait a long time for my cone. But it was worth it. How many of us were walking to school together.
48 divided by 2 = 24
24 divided by 2 = 12
12 divided by 2 = 6
there were 6 people walking to school together

 

[tkhunny]

Everyone working for the store knew. We don't know how many more people that was.

The individual who dropped the flier may not have been a store employee.

Surely there were other fliers.

It's a very bad story. Nowhere near a good problem statement.