Question

Zion is helping his classmates get ready for their math exams by making them identical packages of pencils and calculators. He has 36 pencils and 24 calculators, and he must use all of them to create identical packages. If Zion creates the greatest number of identical packages possible, how many pencils will be in each package?

Answer 1

To create the greatest number of identical packages possible, each package will contain 12 pencils.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find out how many pencils will be in each package, we need to divide the total number of pencils by the number of packages.

In this case, Zion has 36 pencils and he wants to create identical packages. To create the greatest number of identical packages possible, we need to find the greatest common divisor (GCD) of the number of pencils and calculators. The GCD of 36 and 24 is 12.

Therefore, each package will contain 12 pencils.