Answer:
The greatest number of flowers that could be in a bouquet is 9 flowers.
Each bouquet would contain: 3 roses, 1 daise and 5 tulips
Explanation:
Sandy has 27 roses, 9 daisies, and 45 tulips. She wants to arrange all the flowers in bouquets. Each bouquet has the same number of flowers and the same type of flower. What is the greatest number of flowers that could be in a bouquet?
We solve the above question using Greatest Common Factor method.
We find the factors of 27, 9 and 45
The greatest common factor is the highest factor common to these 3 number
Hence:
The factors of 9 are: 1, 3, 9
The factors of 27 are: 1, 3, 9, 27
The factors of 45 are: 1, 3, 5, 9, 15, 45
Then the greatest common factor is 9.
Therefore, the greatest number of flowers that could be in a bouquet is 9 flowers
Each bouquet would contain
For 27 roses = 27/9 bouquet = 3 roses
For 9 daisies = 9 daisies/9 bouquet = 1 daisies
For 45 tulips = 45 tulips/9 bouquet = 5 tulips