SOLUTION: you have organized a donation drive for the victims of typhoon odette. you are preparing emergency preparedness kits to bring to this donation drive. you have 72 bottles of water a

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Question 1191000: you have organized a donation drive for the victims of typhoon odette. you are preparing emergency preparedness kits to bring to this donation drive. you have 72 bottles of water and 96 cans of food, which you would like to distribute equally among the kits with nothing left over.
What is the greatest number of kits you can make?
How many bottles of water will be in each kit?
How many cans of food will be in each kit?
Answer by ikleyn(52794) About Me  (Show Source):
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The numbers 72 and 96 have the greatest common divisor of 24.

Therefore, distributing equally, you may have 24 identical kits, each containing 3 bottles of water and 4 cans of food.