A caterer is agrranging 72 ham sandwiche and 48 pimento cheese sandwiches on serving trays. He would like to arrange the sandwic
hes so tht each tray has the same number of each kind of sandwich. The number of ham sandwiches on a tray does not need to equal the number of pimento cheese sandwiches on the tray. What is the maximum number of traysthe caterer can use? .
The greatest number of trays the caterer can split the 72 ham sandwiches and 48 pimento cheese sandwiches into can be determined by calculating the highest common factor and 48 and 72
Factors of 48 = 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 24, and 48.
Factors of 72= 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36 and 72.
Using a system of equations, it is found that the correct option is:
A) 1389x+1660y=787x+1121y.
<h3>What is a system of equations?</h3>
A system of equations is when two or more variables are related, and equations are built to find the values of each variable.
In this problem, considering the amounts in each olympics(1389 men and 787 women participated on the 19th, 1660 men and 1121 women in the 22th), the system is:
