Question

Elmers soccer team us making fruit baskets for a fundraiser they have 49 bananas 56 apples and 35 kiwis to use if each basket has the same numbers of each type of fruit what is the greatest number of fruit baskets they can make?

Answer 1

They can make a maximum of 7 fruit baskets with each basket having same number of each type of fruits.

Explanation:

Given:

Number of bananas = 49

Number of apples = 56

Number of kiwis = 35

To find the greatest number of fruit baskets they can make using same numbers of each type of fruit in each basket.

Solution:

In order to find the greatest number of fruit baskets they can make using same numbers of each type of fruit in each basket, we will find the greatest common factor of the numbers of different types of fruits.

In order to find the G.C.F, we will list down the factors of each and then select the common factors.

The factors can be given as:

`49=7* 7`

`56=2* 2* 2* 7`

`35=5* 7`

We find out that 7 is the greatest common factor for all the numbers.

Thus, they can make a maximum of 7 fruit baskets with each basket having same number of each type of fruits.