Question

Holli works for the ymca and is making snack packs for the kids and afterschool program.If she has 76 cheese cracker snacks and 80 juice boxes, what is the greatest number of snack packs that she can make?How many juice boxes will go into each snack pack?

Answer 1

Assuming that each snack pack has 1 juice box and 1 cheese cracker snack, then Holli can make as much as the lowest quantity of juice boxes or cheese cracker snacks.

Let the triangles represent cheese cracker snacks and squares represent juice boxes:

The smallest pack possible includes one cheese cracker snack and one juice box:

The red ovals represent snack packs. Since there are not enough cheese cracker packs to make 77 snack packs, the maximum amount of packs that can be made is 76.

From the drawing, we can see that each snack pack will have one juice box.