SOLUTION: The Peterson family is planning a picnic for 16 people. They will be serving hotdogs. If hotdogs come in package of eight and hotdogs buns come in package of 6 what is the minimum

Question 561902: The Peterson family is planning a picnic for 16 people. They will be serving hotdogs. If hotdogs come in package of eight and hotdogs buns come in package of 6 what is the minimum amount of each that they should purchase so they have an equal number of hotdogs and buns and each person can have the same number of hotdogs.
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Both the number of hot dogs and the number
of buns must be the LCD of 16, 8, and 6.
The LCD is 48.
The minimum amount of hot dogs is 48
The minimum amount of hot buns is 48
Each person gets 3 hot dogs and 3 buns
There are 6 pkgs of hot dogs and
8 pkgs of buns
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