Question

riley is packing 144 pencils 120 files and 108 notebooks equally into as many boxes as possible.What is the greatest number of boxes Riley could pack the items into?

Answer 1

Final Answer : 12 Boxes

Steps:
1) Required no. of boxes will be HCF of 144, 120,108 .


$120 = 12 \times 10 \\ \\ 144 = 12 \times 12 \\ \\ 108 = 12 \times 9$

2) Hence, HCF ( 120,108,144 ) = 12


Therefore, Greatest number of boxes to pack all items into them equally will be 12 where each box contain 10,12,9 files, notebooks and pencils respectively.