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Ben is buying pens and pencils from the store. Pens come in packages of 3, but pencils are sold in packages of 6. If Ben wishes to purchase the same number of pens as pencils, what is the smallest number
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Ben is buying pens and pencils from the store. Pens come in packages

of 3, but pencils are sold in packages of 6. If Ben wishes to purchase
the same number of pens as pencils, what is the smallest number of
pens that he can buy?

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The smallest number of pens he can buy is 4 packages
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