barbara is making candy bags for her birthday party. she has 24 lollypops, 12 candy bars, and 42 pieces of gum. she wants each bag to have the same number of each kin of candy. what is the greatest number of bags she can make if all the candy is used? How many pieces of each kind of candy will be in each bag?

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barbara is making candy bags  for her birthday party. she has 24 lollypops, 12 candy bars, and 42 pieces of gum. she wants each bag to have the same number of each kin of candy. what is the greatest number of bags she can make if all the candy is used? How many pieces of each kind of candy will be in each bag?

anonymous · Answer

so you want each bag to have the same number of each kind of candy ?

anonymous · Answer

@mlwilliams64    maybe there is some thing wrong with this problem,i don't think you can make each bag have the same number of each candy,if you use all the candys