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Joshua need an equal number of notepads and sticky notes. How many packages of each item does Joshua need to buy? Notepads has 5 per 1 pack and sticky notes has 4 per package??

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4 packs of notepads and 5 packs of sticky notes
Explanation: if he needs the same number of both he needs to find the first number that 4 and 5 both go into. 4 x 5 = 20 so this is the least common multiple
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Joshua will need 4 packs of notepads and 5 packs of sticky notes. 5 x 4 equal to 20. So, Joshua will need 4 packs of notepads and 5 packs of sticky notes
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