Question

Kerr is going to pack 9 baby carrots, 12 crackers and 18 grapes into lunch boxes . How many of each food item will there be in a lunch box if she packs the items into the greatest number of indentical lunch boxes

Answer 1

3 baby carrots, 4 crackers and 6 grapes

Explanation:

Given

`Baby\ Carrots = 9`

`Crackers = 12`

`Grapes = 18`

Required

Determine the number of each food item in a lunch box

First we need to get the number of lunch boxes by calculating the GCF of 9, 12 and 18

`9 = 3 * 3`

`12 = 2 * 2 * 3`

`18 = 2 * 3 * 3`

The GCF is:

`GCF = 3`

This implies that the number of lunch boxes is 3.

If there are 3 lunch boxes:

• 3 baby carrots will go into each lunch box because 3 * 3 = 9
• 4 crackers will go into each lunch box because 4 * 3 = 12
• 6 grapes will go into each lunch box because 6 * 3 = 18