Theresa is making bracelets with beads she has 64 red beads and 40 yellow beads each of the braces will have the same number of

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red beads and yellow beads that wants to use up all of the beads she has for the bracelets what is the largest number of braces she can make

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Margaret [11] · Answer 1 · 2022-08-14T12:04:04+03:00

Answer:

8 bracelets

Step-by-step explanation:

Given

Yellow = 40 beads

Red = 64 beads

Required

Highest number of bracelets

To answer this question, we simply need to determine the highest common factor of the given parameters.

40 = 2³ * 5

64 = 2⁶

HCF = 2³

HCF = 2 * 2 * 2

HCF = 8

Hence, the maximum number of bracelets is 8