Question

Please help with these questions

1) If you have 20 red flowers and 25 green flowers what is the largest number of groups you can make so that the flowers are distributed evenly how many red in each and how many green in each?
2) Melissa is making clothes for her dolls. She has 7/8 yards of fabric. Each doll shirt requires 2/5 of a yard of fabric. How many shirts can she make for her dolls?

Thank you!

Answer 1

1) 5
the smallest integer besides one that both sides are divisible by is 5
2) 2

make both denominators the same 35/40, and 16/40. because 16 can only go into 35 twice the answer is 2