Question

Jeff is decorating papers with the child he is babysitting. They have a total of 7 heart stickers and 14 star stickers to use. If they want to make all the papers identical with the same combination of heart and star stickers and no stickers left over what is the greatest number of pages they can decorate

Answer 1

Answer:

7

Step-by-step explanation:

Given the following :

7 heart stickers and 14 star stickers :

The greatest number of pages that can be decorated using the stickers above without any left over ;

To get this we obtain the greatest common factor of 7 and 14

Factors of 14

14 : 1, 2, 7, 14

Factors of 7

7 : 1, 7

The greatest factor common in both numbers is 7

Hence, greatest number of pages that can be decorated without any leftover is 7