SOLUTION: Two scout troops are camping. One troop has 40 members and the other 48 members. The scout masters want to divide them into groups. How can the scouts of the two troops be grou

Question 990013: Two scout troops are camping. One troop has 40 members and the other 48 members. The scout masters want to divide them into groups. How can the scouts of the two troops be grouped so that each group has the biggest number possible of scouts and each group has the same number of scouts with no scouts left out?
Answer by CubeyThePenguin(3113) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
We are finding the GCD (greatest common divisor) of 40 and 48.

40 = 2^3 * 5
48 = 2^4 *3

GCD(40, 48) = 2^3 = 8
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