Pigeon issue calculate the whole "persons"

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I have done an exercise but I am not sure for the result. Could you help me with it if it right or wrong? The exercise:

I have a university and I have students ages $18$ to $25$. At least how many people should be in a trip to ensure there will be at least $10$ persons with the same age and the same sex (men and women).

What I did was $\frac x{20} =10$ so $x=10 \cdot 20 = 200$. $x$ is the whole persons and I divide by $20$ because $10$ women and $10$ men. Am I right? Wrong? What?

Thanks.

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There are 8 age groups and two sexes.

There can be at most 9 in each group without reaching the desired position.

Therefore you must have $8\times2\times9+1=145$ people.