Question

Jeremy has two pieces of what one is 90 inches and the other is 72 inches he want to cut the pieces of wood in the smaller pieces to the all the pieces are the same length if you wants the pieces to be as long as possible and doesn't want to have any lumber left over how long should each piece me how many total pieces of lumber will he have

Answer 1

the gcf of 90 and 72 is 18, so i divided both of them by 18 and i got 4 and 5, in total he would 9 pieces of wood