SOLUTION: a shopkeeper wants to put 84 coconut biscuits and 35 butter biscuits equally into packets without remainder. Each packets must have the same contents. What is the least number of b

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Question 1101395: a shopkeeper wants to put 84 coconut biscuits and 35 butter biscuits equally into packets without remainder. Each packets must have the same contents. What is the least number of biscuits that he can put in each packet

Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) About Me  (Show Source):
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84=7%2A12

35=7%2A5



One packet has 12 coconut biscuits and 5 butter biscuits.
Seventeen biscuits in each packet.