Question

A gift shop wants to make gift baskets for its regular customers. There are 24 bottles

of shampoo, 36 tubes of hand lotion, and 48 bars of soap. The same number of each
item should be in each basket. What is the greatest number of baskets that can be
made?

Answer 1

Find the biggest # that can divide all 3 #'s, and that's your answer.

Explanation:

24 is divisible by:

1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 24

36 is divisible by:

1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 12, 18, 36

48 is divisible by:

1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 24, 48

The biggest # that can divide all 3 #'s is 12, so the greatest amount of baskets that can be made is 12 baskets.