Question

Sara wants to create snack bags for a trip she is going on. She has 12 apple juice boxes and 30 granola bars. If the snack bags should be identified without any food leftover, what is the largest number of snack bags Sara can make? The first person to give me the answer they will
get 85 points!!

Answer 1

Answer:

So given the 18 granola bars and the 12 apples, we need to figure out the GCF, greatest common factor, of 18 and 12 to know how many snack bags we can make.

To find the GCF, factor each number to its prime factorization.

18 = 2 x 3 x 3 = 2 x 32

12 = 2 x 2 x 3 = 22 x 3

Then list each factor with its lowest exponent so that it is in common with each original number.

2 x 3

Therefore the GCF of 18 and 12 is 6, (2 x 3). So you can make 6 snack bags.

Now to determine how many granola bars in each bag just divide the 18 bars by the 6 bags --> 18/6 = 3 bars/bag

and to determine how many apples per bag, do the same. You can do that on you own, can't you?

Hope this helped. I explained it thoroughly because I didn't know what you already knew. Please rate this answer.