Question

The marine life store would like to set up fish tanks that contain equal numbers of angelfish swordtails and guppies what is the greatest number of tanks I can be set up of the store has 12 angelfish 24 swordtails and 30 guppies

Answer 1

The greatest number of tanks is 6 tanks

Explanation:

To find the greatest number of tanks that set up to contain 12 angel fish , 24 sword tails and 30 guppies.

We use GCF (Greatest Common Factor) for 12, 24 and 30.

The factors of 12, 24 ,and 30 is

`12=2* 2* 3`

`24=2* 2* 2* 3`

`30=2* 3* 5`

Therefore, the GCF of 12, 24 and 30 is
`2\cdot 3=6`

or

since
`6*(2+4+5` ) = 12+24+30 fish

therefore, 6 tanks set up with 2 angel fish , 4 sword tails and 5 guppies.