Question

Jasmine baked 12 oatmeal cookies

and 20 chocolate chip cookies to
package in plastic containers for her
teachers at school. She wants to
divide the cookies into identical
containers so that each container has
the same number of each kind of
cookie. What is the greatest number
of containers she can make? How
many oatmeal cookies and chocolate
chips cookies will be in each
container?

Answer 1

Jasmine can divide her 12 oatmeal cookies and 20 chocolate chip cookies into 4 identical containers, with each container having 3 oatmeal cookies and 5 chocolate chip cookies.

Step-by-step explanation:

The student is asking about dividing 12 oatmeal cookies and 20 chocolate chip cookies into identical containers with the same number of each type of cookie. To find the greatest number of containers she can make, we need to find the greatest common divisor (GCD) of the numbers of each type of cookie. The GCD of 12 and 20 is 4. Therefore, Jasmine can make 4 containers. To determine how many oatmeal cookies and chocolate chip cookies will be in each container, we divide the total number of each type of cookie by 4. This gives us 12 / 4 = 3 oatmeal cookies and 20 / 4 = 5 chocolate chip cookies per container.