Question

The length of a iron-sheet and copper-sheet is 672 cm and 960 cm respectively.what will be the length of the highest piece of equal size cut from the two sheets?
determine the numbers of pieces of those two sheets.
please explain

Answer 1

In order to calculate the length of highest piece, You need to calculate the Greatest common divisor of 672 & 960 which is 96

So, the length of highest piece would be 96 cm

Now, Number of pieces of Iron-sheet = 672 / 96 = 7
Number of pieces of Copper-sheet = 960 / 96 = 10

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

To determine length of the highest number of EQUAL pieces from both, you have to find HCF of 672 and 960, which is 96 !

So numbers are 672 ÷96 = 7 for iron sheet !

And 960/96 = 10 for copper sheet !