Lana has 18 pencils, 24 erasers and 36 crayons that she wants to put evenly into her pencil boxes. If she put the same number of

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each type of item in her pencil boxes, what is the most number of pencil boxes will she fit

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vitfil [10] · Answer 1 · 2021-12-20T08:41:07+03:00

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Answer:

6

Step-by-step explanation:

The largest factor that is common to all these numbers is 6. That is the number of pencil boxes Lana can fill.

18 = 6×3

24 = 6×4

36 = 6×6

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Each of her six (6) pencil boxes will have 3 pencils, 4 erasers, and 6 crayons.