SOLUTION: Taylor wants to advertise her business, so she gives packs of 13 red flyers to each restaurant owner and sets of 20 blue flyers to each clothing store owner. At the end of the day

Question 1124780: Taylor wants to advertise her business, so she gives packs of 13 red flyers to each restaurant owner and sets of 20 blue flyers to each clothing store owner. At the end of the day Taylor realizes that she gave out the same number of red and blue flyers. What is the minimum number of flyers of each color distributed?
Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
This would be the least common multiple for both.
260, the product of both, always works. The question is whether anything less does. It doesn't. Answer is 260.
240, 220, 200,180, 160, and 140 don't work.
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