Question

Shakira is baking cookies to put in packages for a fundraiser. Shakira has made 86 chocolate chip cookies and 42 sugar cookies.
Shakira wants to create identical packages of cookies to sell, and she must use all of the cookies.

Answer 1

Answer:

Find the prime factors

86 = 2 x 43

42 = 2 x 3 x 7

Find the HCF:

HCF = 2

Find the number of cookies in each package:

chocolate cookies = 86 ÷ 2 = 43

Sugar cookies = 42 ÷ 2 = 21

Answer: 2 identical package with 43 chocolate cookies and 21 sugar cookies.