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Ms. Palmer is buying pencils and erasers. The pencils come in packs of 8. The erasers come in packs of 12. Ms. Palmer wants to have one eraser per pencil. What is the fewest number of packs of each item that she needs to buy? How many of each item will she have?

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3 packs of pencils is 24 pencils total

2 packs of erasers is 24 erasers total

she will have equal amount of both

answer is 3packs pencils 2packs erasers

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