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owen has two pieces of yarn, one 15 ft long and the other 10 ft long. For a craft project, he wants to cut them up to produce many pieces of yarn that are all the same length, with no yarn left over. What is the greatest length, in feet, that he can make them? Would I use LCM?

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What number is divisible by both 15 and 10? 5 he would have five pieces of yarn all being 5in long
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