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The number of pencil, glue sticks and folders are 200, 150 and 120 respectively.
\chocolate chip cookies is 54, the number of oatmeal raisin cookies is 40 and the number of peanut butter cookies is 30.
\Find the greatest number of packages containing an equal number of item as follows:
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In above factorization forms of both monomials, the common prime factors represented by the circle as follows:
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The product of common prime factors of the monomial is called their greatest common factor(GCF).
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.So, the greatest number of packages containing an equal number of item is 10.
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, the number of pencil per each package is 20, the number of glue sticks per each package is 15 and the number of folders per each package is 12.
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The number of packages containing an equal number of item is 10, the number of pencil per each package is 20, the number of glue sticks per each package is 15 and the number of folders per each package is 12.