Question

15 pastries and 12 biscuits packets gave been donated for school fete .These are to be packed in serveral smaller identical boxes with the small number of pastries and biscuit packets in each.How many biscuit packets and how many pastries will each box contain??

Answer 1

HCF of 15 and 12 = 3
No. of pastries = 15/3
                        =  5
No. of biscuits packets = 12/3
                                     =  4
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