Question

Cy has 42 baseball cards & 70 football cards that he wants to group into packages. Each package will have the same number of cards, and each package will have the same numbers of baseball cards and football cards. How many packages will Cy make if he uses all the cards?

Answer 1

Cy has 42 baseball cards and 70 football cards

he wants to group them into packages with each package having the same number of cards of both types

so we have to find the highest common factor for 42 and 70 so they can be divided into packages equally and each package having an equal number of cards

the factors for 42 and 70 are as follows

42 - 1,2,3,6,7,14,21,42

70 - 1,2,5,7,10,14,35,70

the highest factor common for both is 14

therefore Cy can make 14 packages

each package will have

42/14 = 3 baseball cards

70/14 = 5 football cards

so each package will have 3 baseball cards and 5 football cards

Cy can make 14 packages

Answer 2

The answer is 14

Explanation:

14