Question

Kelly has 64 balloons and 48 flowers to decorate tables for a party.

• She wants to have the same number of balloons on each table.
• She also wants to have the same number of flowers on each table.
What is the greatest number of tables Kelly will be able to decorate for the party?

Answer 1

16 tables

Explanation:

Basically this is a question involving the Greatest Common Factor(GCF) also sometimes referred to as Greatest Common Divisor(GCD)

The greatest common factor (GCF or GCD ) of a set of whole numbers is the largest positive integer that divides evenly into all numbers with zero remainder.

To find the GCF, find the factors of each number and then find the largest common factor

The factors of 48 are: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 24, 48

The factors of 64 are: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64

16 is the largest common factor and therefore GCF(48, 64) = 16

This means that the greatest number of tables for decoration is 16

With 16 tables there will be 64/16 = 4 balloons per table and 48/16 = 3 flowers per table

Answer 2

24

Explanation:

you dived the number for flowers