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every 8 days the cafeteria sells pizza and every 5 days they sell banana pudding today they had both how many days till they sell both agin? plzzzzz help​

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Answer:

40 days

Explanation:

This is a least common multiple problem. To do this, you need to find the number where it's a multiple of both.

Multiples of 8 are: 8, 16, 24, 32, 40...

Multiples of 5 are: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40.

Both have the number 40.

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