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Pencils are sold in boxes of 10 Erasers are sold in boxes of 14 A teacher wants to buy the same number of pencils and erasers work out the smallest number of boxes of each item she should buy

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Answer:

7 boxes of pencils and 5 boxes of erasers.

Explanation:

The least common denominator of these two numbers are 70. 7×10 and 14×5. So she is purchasing the same quantity of both.

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