for st patricks day, starbucks is giving every 12th customer a free peppermint patty latte and every 8th customer a free shamroc

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marusya05 [52]

3 years ago

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for st patricks day, starbucks is giving every 12th customer a free peppermint patty latte and every 8th customer a free shamroc

k cookie. what is the first customer that will get both a free latte and a free cookie?

Mathematics

2 answers:

nevsk [136] · Answer 1 · 2022-02-01T08:23:12+03:00

nevsk [136]3 years ago

8 0

The 24th customer, 12×2 is 24 and 8×3 is 24. Ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok

igor_vitrenko [27] · Answer 2 · 2022-02-01T07:01:21+03:00

igor_vitrenko [27]3 years ago

5 0

The 24th, you want to find the lowest common multiple of 24, and the greatest common factor of 8. Luckily, 8 goes into 24, 3 times. While 12 goes into it only twice.