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A cereal  manfunction puts a 50 cent coupon in every eighth box and a fee coupon in every hundredth box.What is the first time you would both coupons in the same box?

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What you need is the 'Least Common Multiple' of 8 and 100.

The 200th box will contain the 2nd free coupon and the 25th 50-cent coupon.
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