SOLUTION: Two opposing football teams have squad sizes of 24 and 32. For a training exercise, each squad is to divide into smaller groups of equal size. What is the largest number of players

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Question 1067901: Two opposing football teams have squad sizes of 24 and 32. For a training exercise, each squad is to divide into smaller groups of equal size. What is the largest number of players in a group if the group size for both squads is the same?
Answer by CubeyThePenguin(3113)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
We are finding GCD(24, 32).

24 = 2^3 * 3
32 = 2^5

GCD(24, 32) = 2^3 =

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