Question

Sue is placing cookies in bags. She has 10 peanut butter cookies and 16 oatmeal cookies. She will place same number of cookies in each bag, and there will be only one type of cookie how many bags will she need

Answer 1

She will need 10 bags. I'll show why:

10 peanut cookies, 16 oatmeal.


10. 16

9. 15

8. 14

7. 13

6. 12

5. 11

4. 10

3. 9

2. 8

1 7


She needs 10 bags, with 6 Oatmeal Cookies leftover.