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Salena is buying school supplies. Pencils are sold in packages of 12, while erasers are sold in packs of 10.She wants to buy the smallest number of both pencils and erasers so that she has an eraser for every pencil. How many packages of pencils and erasers should Salena buy?

User Ande Caleb
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12 x 5 = 60

10x 6= 60

so 5 packs of pencils and 6 packs of erasers.

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