Question

Jennifer is making bouquets of flowers. She has 25 roses, 45 tulips, and 15 snapdragons. She divides the flowers equally to make as many bouquets as possible. She uses up all the flowers. What number of snapdragons are in each bouquet?

a. 3
b.5
c.9
d.15

Answer 1

A. 3

Explanation:

45 + 15 + 25 = 85

There are 85 flowers.

There are 25 roses, 45 tulips, an 15 roses.

What are all 3 of these divisible by?

5!

That means that there will be 5 bouquets.

Let's divide each number by 5 to find out how many of each type of flower is in each bouquet.

25/5 = 5

5 roses in each bouquet

45/5 = 9

9 tulips in each bouquet

15/5 = 3

3 snapdragons in each bouquet

5 + 9 + 3 = 17

There are a total of 17 flowers in each bouquet.

Out of those 17 flowers, 3 are snapdragons.

A. 3

Answer 2

a. 3

Explanation:

The number of flowers should be divisible by the number of bouquets.

Since

`25 = 5 * 5 \\ 45 = 5 * 9 \\ 15 = 5 * 3`

there should be 5 bouquets, and each bouquet has 5 roses, 9 tulips and 3 snapdragons.

so the answer is

a. 3