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Justin has 20 pencils,25 erasers,and 40 paper clips.He organizes them into groups with the same number of items in each group.How many items can he put in each group?

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You could add all those numbers together and get 85. Then divide that by 5 and your remainder is 17. He can put 17 items in each group (or if you do 85 divided by 17 Justin can put 5 items in each group).
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