Casey has 48 red peppers and 16 yellow peppers. If Casey wants to put the peppers into baskets so that each basket has the same

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Casey has 48 red peppers and 16 yellow peppers. If Casey wants to put the peppers into baskets so that each basket has the same

number of red and yellow peppers, what is the greatest number of baskets he can make? How many of each type of pepper will he make?

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agasfer [191] · Answer 1 · 2022-07-03T21:59:43+03:00

He can make a total of 16baskets with one of each pepper in each basket. The yellow peppers are the limiting factor on the problem as there are the least amount of them.
Therefore the greatest number of baskets with equal amounts of both peppers is 16 baskets.
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