SOLUTION: A dish company needs to ship an order of 117 glass bowls. The company will put the bowls into several boxes. Each box must contain the same number of bowls. How many boxes could th

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Question 1142891: A dish company needs to ship an order of 117 glass bowls. The company will put the bowls into several boxes. Each box must contain the same number of bowls. How many boxes could the company use for the order?
Found 2 solutions by josmiceli, ikleyn:
Answer by josmiceli(19441)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
so, there could be 13 boxes
with 9 bowls in each box, or
there could be 9 boxes with 13 bowls in each box.
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The other choices are:
so, there could be
39 boxes with 3 bowls in each box, or
3 boxes with 39 bowls in each box.
Answer by ikleyn(52781)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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There are much more options: 

    3 boxes with   = 39 glasses each,   or


    9 boxes with   = 13 glasses each,   or

   
    13 boxes with   = 9 glasses each,   or


    39 boxes with   = 3 glasses each.




Finally, there are two additional (improper ?) options, that are not prohibited by the condition


    1 box with   = 117 glasses,  and


   117 boxes with   = 1 glass each.


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