SOLUTION: there are 20 red and 24 green pencils in a shop the shopkeeper wants to distribute them equally in boxes find the largest number of pencils that can put in each box

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Question 1041831: there are 20 red and 24 green pencils in a shop the shopkeeper wants to distribute them equally in boxes find the largest number of pencils that can put in each box
Answer by chen.aavaz(62) About Me  (Show Source):
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The largest number (assuming the shopkeeper has more than one boxes) is to put 10 red and 12 green pencils in each box; thus he will need 2 boxes.