Question

5 small containers of capacity 16, 72, 12, 24 and 56 Litres are to be used to fill a bigger container. What is the capacity of the bigger container which can be filled by each of the above containers exactly without leaving a remainder when used seperately?

Answer 1

Answer: 1008

Explanation:

Given

5 small containers of capacity 16,72,12,24, and 56 litres is required to fill a big container.

The volume of big container is the LCM of the 5 given containers

`LCM(16,72,12,24,56)=1008`

Therefore, the capacity of the bigger container is 1008 litres.