Question

Theresa is making bracelets with beads she has 64 red beads and 40 yellow beads each of the braces will have the same number of red beads and yellow beads that wants to use up all of the beads she has for the bracelets what is the largest number of braces she can make

Answer 1

8 bracelets

Explanation:

Given

Yellow = 40 beads

Red = 64 beads

Required

Highest number of bracelets

To answer this question, we simply need to determine the highest common factor of the given parameters.

40 = 2³ * 5

64 = 2⁶

HCF = 2³

HCF = 2 * 2 * 2

HCF = 8

Hence, the maximum number of bracelets is 8