Justin has 90 mild peppers and 36 hot peppers. If Justin wants to put the peppers into baskets so that each basket has the same

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Justin has 90 mild peppers and 36 hot peppers. If Justin wants to put the peppers into baskets so that each basket has the same

number of mild peppers and the same number of hot peppers, what is the greatest number of baskets he can make? How many of each type of pepper will be in the basket?

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galina1969 [7] · Answer 1 · 2022-05-31T09:51:52+03:00

galina1969 [7]3 years ago

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There are only 36 hot peppers therefore to make it even “Justin” can only add 36 mild peppers. If he wants the greatest number of baskets than that too will be 18 (mini lol) baskets. Each basket can only contain 2 peppers to be even... 2/36 =18.