Question

Kayla has 36 yellow stickers, 27 red stickers, and 18 blue stickers. She wants to distribute the stickers into bags so that each bag contains only one color of stickers and every bag has the same number of stickers. How many stickers can Kayla put in each bag?

Answer 1

Kayla can put 9 stickers in each bag.

she can distribute it into bags of 9 stickers each of the same colour.

Explanation:

Given;

yellow stickers = 36

red stickers = 27

blue stickers = 18

For her to distribute the stickers into bags so that each bag contains only one color of stickers and every bag has the same number of stickers without remainder.

We need to find the highest common factor of the number of the three colours.

36 = 4×9

27 = 3×9

18 = 2×9

We can see that they are all divisible by 9

Therefore, she can distribute it into bags of 9 stickers each