Question

A gardener has 27 pansies and 36 daisies. he plants an equal number of each type of flower in each row. what is the greatest possible number of pansi

es in each row?

Answer 1

I just did this is our math book at school, but what you do is find the GCF of the numbers. So list all there factors. 27=1x27, 3x9, and that's it. 36=1x36, 2x18, 3x12, 4x9, and that's it. So, next you see that highest numbers they both have in common, in this case it is 9. So your answer is, 9 pansies.