Question

Destiny just received two separate gifts from her great-great-grandmother. The first gift is a box of 181818 chocolate candy bars, and the second gift is a pack of 121212 cookies. Destiny wants to use all of the chocolate candy bars and cookies to make identical snack bags for her cousins. What is the greatest number of snack bags that Destiny can make?

Answer 1

6

Explanation:

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Answer 2

greatest common factor of 18 and 12 is 6

18/6 = 3
12/6 = 2

so she can make 6 bags...each containing 3 chocolate bars and 2 bags of cookies