Question

I have 86 chocolate chip cookies and 42 sugar cookies what is the greatest number of identical packages that I can make

Answer 1

Assuming there can only be 2 cookies per identical package, She can make 42 identical packages which contains 2 chocolate chip cookies and 1 sugar cookie.

86 / 2 = 43 chocolate chips cookies

42 / 1 = 42 sugar cookies

With the sugar cookies not having the capability to match the requirements we will assume for this answer that an "Identical Package" is composed of 2 chocolate chip cookies, and a single sugar cookie.

Answer 2

Explanation:

Given that,

No. of chocolate chip cookies = 86

No. of sugar cookies = 42

We need to find the number of identical packages that I can make.

It means we need to find the HCF of these 2 number.

Prime factorization of 86 and 42 as follows :

86 = 2 x 43

42 = 2 x 3 x 7

HCF = 2

Hence, I can make 2 identical packages.