Question

Molly has 24 muffins,18 breakfast bars,and 12 bottles of juice to be distributed evenly among a certain number of welcome baskets she wants to package the maximum number of welcome baskets that will contain the same combination of muffins breakfast bars and bottles of jucie which shows the correct number of muffins breakfast bars and juice bottles among with the proper explanation circle all that apply

Answer 1

So there are 24 muffins, 18 Breakfast bars, and 12 bottles of juice. You would write that ratio as 24:18:12. You would want to make the juice box got down to 1. So you would divide all the numbers in the ration by 12. Your new ratio would be 2:1.5:1. Since you don’t want to break one of the bars in half, you would round down to maximize your baskets, so it would be 2:1:1. You could make exactly 12 baskets and have some breakfast bars left over.

Answer 2

Answer: Hello mate!

We want to distribute 24 muffins, 18 breakfast bars and 12 bottles of juice evenly into baskets, and we want to know the maximum amount of baskets that makes this possible.

This means that we are looking for the maximal common factor between 12, 18 and 24.

To find it, you can took the smallest number in the set, in this case, 12, and look at his divisors, then see if these divisors also divide the other numbers in the set.

Let's do it:

The biggest divisor of 12 is 6, because of 12/6 = 2.

Now 18/6 = 3, so 6 is also a divisor of 18.

24/6 = 4, then 6 is also a divisor of 24.

Then the maximal common factor of the numbers 12, 18 and 24 is 6.

This means that the maximum number of baskets that have an even distribution of the things is 6, where each basket has 2 bottles of juice, 3 breakfast bars, and 4 muffins.