Question

annie,the florist has 72 red flowers,27 yellow flowers and 54 pink flowers.she wants to make the bouquet with the same number of each flowers in the each bouquet.what is the greatest number of bouquets she can make​

Answer 1

Answer:

Sara obviously wants to use all the flowers so she does not any left over. She needs to find a number which divides into 16 and 24,

This is just an indirect way of using the HCF of 16 and 24, which is 8.

16

=

2

×

8

24

=

3

×

8

She will be able to make 8 bouquets:

Each bouquet will have 2 red flowers and 3 yellow flowers.