SOLUTION: mrs.bell has 24 students. mr. dole has 36 students in his class.the two classes are working on the same project and so the students in each class need to be split up into equally s

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Question 1173982: mrs.bell has 24 students. mr. dole has 36 students in his class.the two classes are working on the same project and so the students in each class need to be split up into equally sized groups.what is the maximum number of students that can be in each group?

Answer by ikleyn(52803) About Me  (Show Source):
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12.

12 is the Greatest Common Divisor of the numbers 24 and 36.


12 = GCD(24,36).


Sometime is called the Greatest Common Factor.


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To learn more about this conception, see THIS Wikipedia article

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_common_divisor