Joanne is campaigning for class president and plans to distribute some campaign materials: 20 flyers and 16 buttons. She wants each classroom to receive an identical set of campaign materials, without having any materials left over. What is the greatest number of classrooms Joanne can distribute materials to? How many flyers and how many buttons would be distributed to each classroom?
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Joanne can distribute this material to maximum 4 classrooms..
Now, it has become easier to calculate the number for the next question..5 flyers and 4 buttons would be distributed to each classroom...
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Given: Joanne is campaigning for class president and plans to distribute some campaign materials: 20 flyers and 16 buttons. She wants each classroom to receive an identical set of campaign materials, without having any materials left over.
To find- 1-Greatest number of classrooms Joanne can distribute materials
2- Number of flyers and buttons distributed to each classroom
Solution: Number of flyers= 20
Number of buttons= 16
For finding the number of classrooms, we need to find the highest number which divides both 16 and 20 without leaving remainder.
For finding highest common factor (HCF), we list the factors of both the numbers.
16- 1,2,4,8,16
20-1,2,4,5,10,20
Clearly 4 is the HCF.
Therefore, total number of classrooms= 4
Number of flyers distributed to each classroom
= Total flyers/ Total classrooms
= 20/4
= 5
Number of buttons distributed to each classroom
= Total buttons/ Total classrooms
= 16/4
= 4
Therefore, the greatest number of classrooms Joanne can distribute materials to is 4 and each classroom gets 5 flyers and 4 buttons.