Question

Mrs. Cook wants to give each of her 24 students the same amount of candy. If each package of candy has 36 pieces in it, how many packages of candy should she buy so that there will be none left over?

Answer 1

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So, If you buy 2 bags of candy, you have 72 pieces of candy. Can 72 pieces be evenly distributed between 24 people?

36 x 2 = 72 72 / 24 = 3

So each student gets 3 pieces of candy.

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Answer 2

Answer:2

Explanation:

Given

Mrs. cook wants to give each of her 24 students equal candy

Each package contains has 36 pieces in it

Let n be no of candy packages she bought

therefore total no candy she have
`=36* n`

Thus 24 must be divisible by
`36* n`

therefore least value of n should be 2 or multiple of 2