Why do fans (and propellers) have different numbers of blades? What advantage is there to more or less blades?

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An actual question my five year old asked me and I couldn’t answer, please help!

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Some planes actually needed shorter blades, because of the ground clearance for taxing, takeoff, and landing, so you would see them with tri or quad blades.

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