Question

Sarah is making flower arrangements. She has 15 roses and 10 daisies. If she wants to make all identical arrangements, with no flowers leftover, what is the greatest number of arrangements she can make? And how much of each flower will be in each arrangement

Answer 1

find greatest common factor

factor each
15=1*3*5
10=1*2*5

gcf=1*5 or 5

15=5*3
10=5*2

so 5 arrangements, each with 3 roses and 2 dasies