Question

Lana has 18 pencils, 24 erasers and 36 crayons that she wants to put evenly into her pencil boxes. If she put the same number of each type of item in her pencil boxes, what is the most number of pencil boxes will she fit

Answer 1

6

Explanation:

The largest factor that is common to all these numbers is 6. That is the number of pencil boxes Lana can fill.

18 = 6×3

24 = 6×4

36 = 6×6

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Each of her six (6) pencil boxes will have 3 pencils, 4 erasers, and 6 crayons.