Question

Red roses come 3 to a package, and white roses come 5 to a package. If an equal number of red and white roses are wanted to make bouquets, what is the minimum number of each that can be purchased?

Answer 1

Well first, you want to find their least common multiple, which is 15.

So you want 15 red roses and 15 white roses.

In order to get that, you want 5 packages of red roses, because 3*5=15.

And you’ll want 3 packages of white roses because 5*3=15.