A bag contains equal numbers of green and blue marbles. You can divide all the green marbles into groups of 12 and all the blue

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3 years ago

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marbles into groups of 16. What is the least number of each color of marble that can be in that bags?

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KIM [24] · Answer 1 · 2022-08-11T00:04:15+03:00

KIM [24]3 years ago

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To solve this problem, we need to find for the LCM of each number. That is:

12: 12, 24, 36, 48, 60

16: 16, 32, 48, 64, 80

So we can see that the LCM is 48.

<span>Therefore the least number of each color of marble must be 48.</span>