Question

For a dinner party, Myra is creating individual servings of appetizers. She has 15 carrot sticks

and 18 celery sticks. If she wants each serving to be identical, with no food left over, what is
the greatest number of servings Myra can create?

Answer 1

We’ll, 18 and 15 have only 1 number in common and that’s 3. So if you go back a little (divide by 3) you get to 6 and 5. So she only gets 3 servings

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