Question

A confectioner has 500 mint, 500 orange and 500 strawberry flavored sweets. He wishes to make packets containing 10 mint, 5 orange and 5 strawberry sweets. What is the maximum number of packets of this type he can make?

Answer 1

no of mint sweets=500
no of sweets in each packet=10
no of packets=500/10=50
no of orange sweets=500
no of sweets in each packet=5
no of packets=500/5=100
no of strawberry sweets=500
no of sweets in each packet=5
no of packets=500/5=100

we have to take the minimum value of packets here

so answer is 50 packets

250 orange and strawberry flavored  sweets are residued.

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