Question

Ms. Tyson is doing an engineering challenge with her students. Each team will get a kit with bags of marshmallows and boxes of toothpicks. Ms. Tyson has 36 bags of marshmallows and 48 boxes of toothpicks. She wants to use all the bags of marshmallows and all the boxes of toothpicks to make identical kits for the teams.​

Answer 1

Answer: Simple!! 1, 2, 6!

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Answer 2

Answer: its 1 2 6

Factors of 36: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 12, 18, 36. Factors of 48: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 24, 48. There are 6 common factors of 36 and 48, i.e. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 12. Therefore, the highest common factor of 36 and 48 is 12.