Question

A fruit seller has 72 pineapples, 108 apples and 120 mangoes. he desire to put them into heaps of equal numbers. what is the maximum equal number of fruits that he can put in each heap? How many total such heaps of equal numbers will be form?

Answer 1

First find the HCF of the total number of pineapples , apples and mangoes to find the maximum number of fruits he can put in each heap.
HCF of 72,108 and 120= 12
therefore, he can put 12 fruits in each heap.
To find the number of heaps we first add the number of fruits

72+108+120=300
and then we will divide number of fruits by the number of fruits in each heap
300÷12 = 25
Therefore number of heaps = 25
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Answer 2

Hi!
Let's see,

To find the equal no. of fruits of each type in each packet, we need to find HCF.

HCF of 72, 108 & 120 = 12

Total number of packets:
(72 + 108 + 120)/12
= 300/12
= 25 packets.

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