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you are creating identical picnic baskets using 30 sandwiches and 42 cookies. what is the greatest number of baskets that you can fill using all of the food?
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you are creating identical picnic baskets using 30 sandwiches and 42 cookies. what is the greatest number of baskets that you can fill using all of the food?

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Does the question tell you how many sandwitches and cookies a basket can hold?
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If you can cut some sandwitches and cookies in half, you can fill 4, if not.. then only 2.

30/2=15/2=7.5


42/2=21/2=10.5

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