Question

A school has a stationery shop. In that shop, each packet of pens has 6 pens, each packet of pencils has 8 pencils and each packet of erasers has 10 erasers.

If a teacher wants each of his students to have the same number of pens, pencils and erasers, then what is the least number of packets of each type that the teacher needs to buy for one student?

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

here , we need to find the LCM

LCM of 6,8,10 is 120

120/6= 20

120/8=15

120/10.=12

teacher should buy 20 packets of pen

15 packets of pencil

and 12 packets of eraser