Question

William has 24 cans of fruit and 60 cans of vegetables that he will be putting into bags for a food drive. He wants each bag to have the same number of cans of each type of food. He uses all the cans.

Use the drop-down menus to complete the statements below about the number of bags of food William can make.

Answer 1

William will make 12 bags of food

each of which contains 2 cans of fruit and 5 cans of vegetables.

Explanation:

For this kind of the problem we calculate the greatest common divisor(gcd) of the two terms.

Here, we have to find gcd of 24 and 60

24=12×2

60=12×5

Hence, gcd of 24 and 60 is 12

i.e. William will make 12 bags of food

each of which contains 2 cans of fruit and 5 cans of vegetables.