Question

Lee is sewing vests using 16 green buttons and 40 blue buttons. All vests are identical, and all have both green and blue buttons. What are the possible numbers of vests Lee can make? What is the greatest number of vests Lee can make?

Answer 1

You can make 8 vests and each one will have 2 green buttons and 3 blue buttons (16/8=2 and 24/8=3)

Explanation:

the GCF of 16 and 24 is (2*2*2*2 and 2*2*2*3) 2*2*2=8