document.write( "Question 647281: Mary is creating party favors with pencils and stickers. She has 20 pencils and 36 stickers, and wants each party favor to include the same combination of pencils and stickers, with none leftover. What is the greatest number of
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document.write( "The greatest common divisor (or factor) of 20 and 36 is 4, \r\n" );
document.write( "so the greatest number of party favors she could create is 4:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Each one would contain 20÷4 or 5 pencils and 36÷4 or 9 stickers, so \r\n" );
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document.write( " 5 pencils and  9 stickers plus\r\n" );
document.write( " 5 pencils and  9 stickers plus\r\n" );
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document.write( " 5 pencils and  9 stickers equals\r\n" );
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document.write( "20 pencils and 36 stickers.\r\n" );
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