Question

Justing has 20 pencils, 25 erasers, and 40 paper clips. He organize them into groups with the same number of items and each group. All the items in. Group will be the same type. How many items can he put in each group?

Answer 1

The answer is 17 items in 5 groups.

Explanation:

If we have 20 pencils + 25 erasers + 40 paper clips; that´s a total of 85 items.

Then we just divide all the items into 5 groups so we can have the same amount of items in each group.

85 items ÷ 5 groups = 17 items each.

17 x 5 = 85.