Question

at a local bakery , all loaves of bread come with 19 slices, when all loaves of rye bread come with 20 slices. If ram bought the same number of slices of each type of bread , what is the smallest number of slices of each type that ram could have bought?

Answer 1

The idea is to find the number of loafs that we need to buy from both breads types so that the number of slices is same.

So we find the LCM of 19 and 20. Which is 380.

So we need to buy 20 loafs of wheat bread ( 380 slices dived by 19 slices in one loaf).

Similarly 19 slices of rye bread.