SOLUTION: There are 15 girls and 75 boys on a class field trip to the amusement park. The students need to be broken up into the largest possible groups so that each group contains the same

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Question 1151989: There are 15 girls and 75 boys on a class field trip to the amusement park. The students need to be broken up into the largest possible groups so that each group contains the same number of students. Each group must be all girls or all boys. How many students should be in each group?
Answer by Theo(13342) About Me  (Show Source):
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i believe the largest group will contain 15 students.
you would have 1 group of 15 girls and 5 groups of 15 boys each.
15 goes into 15 one time.
15 goes into 75 five times.