SOLUTION: Nina baked 96 cookies while Jean baked 120. They want to put the biggest number of cookies in each plastic bag so that both have the same number of cookies in a bag wherein there

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Question 990012: Nina baked 96 cookies while Jean baked 120. They want to put the biggest number of cookies in each plastic bag so that both have the same number of cookies in a bag wherein there are no left over cookies and their cookies are separate. Can you help them find how to put cookies into plastic bags?
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Nina baked 96 cookies while Jean baked 120. They want to put the biggest number of cookies in each plastic bag so that both have the same number of cookies in a bag wherein there are no left over cookies and their cookies are separate. Can you help them find how to put cookies into plastic bags?
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Prime factor 96 and 120
96: 2.2.2.2.2.3
120: 2.2.2.3.5
Factors common to both
2.2.2.3 = 24 cookies in each bag
then
2*2 = 4 bags of Nina's cookies
and
5 bags of Jean's cookies