SOLUTION: there are 20 red and 24 green pencils in a shop the shopkeeper wants to distribute them equally in boxes find the largest number of pencils that can put in each box

SOLUTION: there are 20 red and 24 green pencils in a shop the shopkeeper wants to distribute them equally in boxes find the largest number of pencils that can put in each box

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Question 1041831: there are 20 red and 24 green pencils in a shop the shopkeeper wants to distribute them equally in boxes find the largest number of pencils that can put in each box

Answer by chen.aavaz(62) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The largest number (assuming the shopkeeper has more than one boxes) is to put 10 red and 12 green pencils in each box; thus he will need 2 boxes.
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