Question

Bubbles bakery has 24 oatmeal cookies, 36 vanilla bean cookies, 42 chocolate chip cookies. What is the greatest common factor bubbles bakery can use to divide the cookies into equal groups

Answer 1

Answer:6

Step-by-step explanation:

We have three groups of cookies as follows:

24   oatmeal

36   vanilla bean

42  chocolate chip

If we breack down into factors we get

24    2       24 = 2³ * 3        36    2   36 = 2²*3³         42   2   42 = 2*3*7

12     2                                 18    2                              21   3

6      2                                   9    3                                7   7

3      3                                   3    3                                1

1                                             1

Fom where we can get that biggest common factor is 6

24 ÷  6      =  4

36 ÷  6      =  6

42 ÷  6      =  7

Then Bakery will have  4 groups of oatmeal cookies, 6 of vanilla bean, and 7 chocolate chip