Question

Harry is making gift bags using two types of candies. He has 84 chocolates and 56 peppermints. Each bag will be the same. If he uses all his candy, he can make at most ____ gift bags. Each gift bag will have ___chocolates and ___peppermints.

Answer 1

You have to find a common factor (preferably the greatest one):
The GCF of 84 and 56 is 28 so harry can make 28 gift bags, now to figure out how many candies go in each bag:
84/28=3
56/28=2
3 chocolates and 2 peppermints go in each bag.

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