Question

Craig is creating gift baskets for the food pantry to give away. He
has 96 canned food items and 72 boxed food items, giving him a
total of 168 items.

He wants to make sure that every gift basket has an equal amount
of canned food items and an equal number of boxed food items,
with no food items left over.

Answer 1

plz help me

Answer 2

Wrong section. However, I can help :)

You basically need to find the greatest common factor of 72 and 96. You can find that by looking at both numbers and writing out how you can get them. For example, for 4, your factors would be 1, 2, 4. Because 2x2=4 and 1x4=4.

The greatest common factor of 72 and 96 is 24 (72 by doing 24x3 and 72 by doing 96x4)

So, there would be 24 canned food and boxed items in the basket.

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