Rishita has two pieces of cloth. One piece is 72 inches wide and other piece 90 inches wide. She wants to cut both pieces into stripes of equal width that are as wide as possible. How wide should she cut the strips.
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Given Rishita has two pieces of cloth. One piece is 72 inches wide and other piece 90 inches wide. She wants to cut both pieces into stripes of equal width that are as wide as possible. How wide should she cut the strips.
- Rishita has two pieces of cloth. The two pieces of cloth are 72 inches and 90 inches wide.
- So we need to find the highest common factor for the given inches.
- So the factors are
- 90 = 2 x 3 x 3 x 5
- 72 = 2 x 2 x 2 x 3 x 3
- Therefore hcf of 90 and 72 will be 2 x 3 x 3 = 18 inches
- So she needs to cut the strips with a width of 18 inches
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it is HCF process the answer is 18
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