judith baked 30 peanut butter cookies and 48 chocolate chip cookies to package in plastic containers for her friends at school s

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judith baked 30 peanut butter cookies and 48 chocolate chip cookies to package in plastic containers for her friends at school s

he wants to divide the cookies into identical packages so that each package has the same number of each kind of cookie if she wants each container to have the greatest number of cookies possible. how many packages does she need?

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grin007 [14] · Answer 1 · 2022-01-11T01:54:02+03:00

grin007 [14]3 years ago

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6 packages

The greatest common factor (GCF) of 30 and 48 is 6, so each package will have 5 (30/6 = 5) peanut butter and 8 (48/6 = 8) chocolate chip cookies.