SOLUTION: Lydia collects shells. She has 40 sea snail shells, 32 conch shells, and 16 scallop shells. She wants to display the shells in equal rows, with only one type of shell in each row.

Question 1176039: Lydia collects shells. She has 40 sea snail shells, 32 conch shells, and 16 scallop shells. She wants to display the shells in equal rows, with only one type of shell in each row.

What is the greatest number of shells Lydia can put in each row?
Answer by ikleyn(52775) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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8 (eight).

Which is totally obvious.

In Math language, 8 is the Greatest Common Divisor (GCD) of numbers 40, 32 and 16.

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