Part of an ad for interlocking foam squares is shown. A teacher has 2 packages of red, 6 packages of blue, and half a package of yellow squares. He wants to build a rectangle so that each row is the same color. What can be the maximum number of squares per row?

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anonymous · Answer

The part that is shown isn't important lol and the options are 2, 18, 36 or 6

ganeshie8 · Answer

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anonymous · Answer

the best I can do....

ganeshie8 · Answer

so you have 
red squares :   2*36
blue squares :  6*36
yellow squares : 18

ganeshie8 · Answer

take the gcf of them

anonymous · Answer

what would that be.. lol

ganeshie8 · Answer

it would be 18, but does that really help ?
i think it would be more fun if you get to know how to solve this on your own :)

anonymous · Answer

true haha sorry I just have way to much work to do

ganeshie8 · Answer

ikr... give it a try :) these problems with numbers are really cool and easy

anonymous · Answer

I'm actually starting to understand them more with your help :))

ganeshie8 · Answer

good to hear :)