Question

A sweet seller has a 420 kaju barfie's and 130 badam barfie's he wants to stack them in such a way that each stack has a same number of barfies and they take up the least area of the tray . what is the number of barfies that can be plased in each stack for this purpose ??/
(a) 40
(b) 30
(c) 10
(d) 2​

Answer 1

Answer:

c) 10

Step-by-step explanation:

Let use Eulid's algorithm

420=130*3+30

130=30*4+10

30=10*3+0

So, the HCF of 420 and 130 is 10.

Therefore, the sweetseller can make stracks of 10 for both kinds of barfi.