Question

Rulers are sold in boxes of 12

protractors are sold in boxes of 8
A teacher would want to buy the same number of rulers and protractors
work out the smallest number of boxes of each iteam he shoould by
ruler boxes?
protractor boxes?

Answer 1

Explanation:

Find the GCF:

12, 24, 36

8, 16, 24, 32

GCF is 24

The lowest amount of boxes the teacher could buy would be 2 boxes of Rulers and 3 boxes of Protractors. I hope this helped