Question

Emilio has 8 large bottles of soda and 12 large jugs of water. Emilio wants to set up identical tables and have no drinks left over. What is the greatest number of tables that he can set up?

Answer 1

Answer:

4

Step-by-step explanation:

Think about the ratio between the current number of large bottles of soda(8) and the current number of jugs of water (12)

By finding the GCF (Greatest Common Factor) of the two numbers, we can conclude that if both numbers were to be divided by the GCF, 4, we would get a 2:3 ratio.

For every 2 bottles of soda, 3 jugs of water will be placed. Keep doing this until we run out of both sources of liquid, in this case, 4 tables where we would use all the bottles of soda and the jugs of water.