Question

You are filling piñatas for your sister's birthday party. The list shows the gifts you are putting into the piñatas. You want identical groups of gifts in each piñata with no gifts left over. What is the greatest number of piñatas you can make?

Answer 1

The greatest number of piñatas you can make with the gifts is:

• 6 piñatas.

Explanation:

To identify the greatest number of piñatas, you must think in a number that can divide another and obtain a whole number with this:

• 18
• 24
• 42

Bigger the number, greater the number of piñatas, in this case, you can see the numbers given can be divided into four numbers obtaining a whole number: 1, 2, 3, and 6. Remember that the best number is the greatest, in this case, number six. Now you proceed to divide the numbers into 6:

• 
  `(18)/(6)= 3`
• 
  `(24)/(6)= 4`
• 
  `(42)/(6)=7`

Taking into account the values obtained, you can see that each piñata would have: 3 bottles of nail polish, 4 pairs of earrings, and 7 lollipops.