Question

The school has a case of 144 snack-size candy bars and 24 sodas. If these are divided evenly among the students, how many students will get candy and soda? How many candy bars and sodas will each child get?

Is the greatest common factor or least common multiple needed in this situation?

Answer 1

24 students 1 soda and 6 candy bar each

Explanation:

number of snack size candy bars= 144

number of sodas= 24

now GCD of (24, 1 44)= 24 and LCM of (42,144)= 144

thus 24 students will get both candy bars and soda.

these 24 students will get
`(24)/(24)`=1 soda and
`(144)/(24)`= 6 candy bars each

we require greatest common factor in this case to the number of students that receive both candy and soda