Question

Do you want to make bouquets of balloons. You choose 18 yellow, 30 blue, and 42 red balloons. Each bouquet will have the same number of each color. What is the greatest possible number of bouquets you can make?

Answer 1

Answer: 18 bouquets.

Explanation:

The key detail here is that "each bouquet will have the same number of each color." We see that the lowest number of balloons is 18 yellow, so this is our limiting factor. The greatest possible number of balloon bouquets you could create is 18.

18 yellow / 18 bouquets = 1, so 1 yellow per bouquet

30 blue / 18 bouquets = 1.6667, so one 1 blue per bouquet

42 red / 18 bouquets = 2.3333, so 2 red per bouquet

This would be bouquets with one yellow, one blue, and two red to create even bouquets having the same amount of colored balloons each.