Question

Maya has 28 apples, 12 oranges, and 8 mangos. She wants to put an equal number of each kind of fruit into baskets so all of the baskets will be the same. What is the greatest number of fruit that can be put in each basket?

Answer 1

We are given that Maya has 28 apples, 12 oranges, and 8 mangoes.

Now she wants to put equal number of each type of fruits in each basket.

So we have to find the greatest common factor of 28 , 12 and 8.

Factors of 28 are : 1, 2, 4, 7, 14 and 28

Factors of 12 are : 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12

Factors of 8 are: 1, 2, 4 and 8

So here GCF of 28, 12 and 8 is 4.

Answer: So she can put 4 Apples, 4 Oranges and 4 mangoes in each basket.

Answer 2

12 in each basket.

28÷4= 7
12÷4= 3
8÷4=2
7+3+2= 12

Hope this helps!