Question

2.A merchant has 320 litres of type A oil and 480 litres of type B oil. He wants to sell

oil by filling the two types of oil in tins of equal volumes. What is the greatest

volume of such a tin in litres?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Volume of three different kinds of oil are 140,260 and 320 litres.

In order to sell the oil by filling the three kinds of oil separately in tins of equal volumes, the merchant has to find the capacity of tin that divides the capacity of oil exactly.

140=2

2

×5×7

260=2×2×5×13

320=2

6

×5

∴ H.C.F =2

2

×5=20 litres