SOLUTION: midas has 18 silver coins and 12 gold coins he wants to stack each kind of coin so that all the stacks have the same number of coins what is the greatest possible number of coins t

Question 792310: midas has 18 silver coins and 12 gold coins he wants to stack each kind of coin so that all the stacks have the same number of coins what is the greatest possible number of coins that he can place in each stack?
please i need it by monday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
This is another way of asking:
What is the largest number that divides both 12 and 18 ?

so, 6 is the greatest number of coins he can put in each stack

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