Question

Sonika on her daughters birthday wish to distribute 120 apples and 144 mangoes among poor childrens of orphanage she packed food in box such that each box contains same kind of fruit also each box contain an equal number of fruit find the minimum number of box in all the fruits can be packed which which value of have to reflect in about solution

Answer 1

finding this means finding the hcf of both

120 = 2 × 2 × 2 × 3 × 5

144 = 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 3 × 3

hcf = 2 × 2 × 2 × 3

= 24


so in each box we can keep 24 apples or mangoes

so 5 boxes of apples and 6 boxes of mangoes