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How can Diego package all the 64 cookies so that each bag has the same number of them? How many bags can we make and how many cookies will be in each bag? Find other possible ways to package the cookies.

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Answer:

see below

Explanation:

There are 7 divisors of 64. Each represents a possible number of bags of cookies:

  • 1 bag of 64 cookies
  • 2 bags of 32 cookies
  • 4 bags of 16 cookies
  • 8 bags of 8 cookies
  • 16 bags of 4 cookies
  • 32 bags of 2 cookies
  • 64 bags of 1 cookie
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