Question

There are 12 pencils and 24 map colors to be boxed. Each box must contain only one type of item, and every item must be boxed. What is the most that can be placed in a box so that each box has the same number of items?

Answer 1

the answer is 2

Explanation:

The way I no this is because I used division and got two for each box. 24 divided by 12 = 2 for every box