Question

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Mrs Hamid used 72 cups of flour to bake a cake, a pie and some loaves of bread.
She used
cup of flour to bake the pie and twice as much flour to bake the cake.
(a)
How many cups of flour did she use to bake the loaves of bread? Express your
answer as a mixed number in its simplest form.
(b) She made 2 identical loaves of bread. How many cups of flour did she use to
bake a loaf of bread? Give each answer as a mixed number in its simplest form.

Answer 1

Answer:

61

Step-by-step explanation:

Hi,  

183 = 3 X 61

793 = 13 X 61

976 = 2 X 2 X 2 X 2 X 61

so here we can see that HCF = common factors = 61

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