Question

A park district has 25 elm trees and 20 oak trees to be planted. They are separating the trees for different areas. They want each area to have the same number of elm trees and the same number of oak trees. What is the greatest number of areas that can be created?

Answer 1

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Explanation:

Answer 2

This question belongs to greatest common factor.

Given, there are two types of trees.

25 elm trees and 20 oak trees.

Let's find the factors of 25 and 20

25 = 5 * 5

20 = 5* 4

The common factor between both the numbers is 5.

Hence, there should be 5 areas so that the trees can be planted equally.

Answer = 5 areas.