Kiara baked 30 oatmeal cookies and 48 chocolate chip cookies to package in plastic containers for her friends she wants to divide the cookies into identical containers so that each container has the same number of each kind of cookie if she wants each container to have greatest number of cookies possible how many plastic containers does she need? (PLEASE ITS URGENT PLEASE)
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Find the prime factors of 30 and 48:
30 = 2 x 3 x 5
48 = 2⁴ x 3
Find the HCF:
HCF = 2 x 3 = 6
Find the number of cookies in each bag:
Oatmeal = 30 ÷ 6 = 5
Chocolate chip = 48 ÷ 6 = 8
Answer: She needs 6 plastic bags. Each bag has 5 oatmeal and 8 chocolate chip cookies.
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