Question

Shaquira is baking cookies to put in packages for a fundraiser. Shaquira has made 86 chocolate chip cookies and 42 sugar cookies.
Shaquira wants to create identical packages of cookies to sell, and she must use all of the cookies.
What is the greatest number of identical packages that Shaquira can make?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

Answer:

=2 <3

Step-by-step explanation:  Shaquira is baking cookies to put in packages for a fundraiser. Shaquira has made

86

8686 chocolate chip cookies and

42

4242 sugar cookies.

Shaquira wants to create identical packages of cookies to sell, and she must use all of the cookies.

What is the greatest number of identical packages that Shaquira can make?

=2.  

Hope this helps!! this was the answer on Khan Acadmey