SOLUTION: Country Food sells eggs in cartons of 8 and 12 eggs. This summer, they will introduce a carton with 16 eggs. Suppose Country Food would like to have the same number of eggs in each

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Question 188554: Country Food sells eggs in cartons of 8 and 12 eggs. This summer, they will introduce a carton with 16 eggs. Suppose Country Food would like to have the same number of eggs in each row of the three cartons. How many eggs will be in each row?
Answer by Starchaser(2) About Me  (Show Source):
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This word problem really just wants the GCF of 8, 12 and 16... which is 4.
Each of the three cartons would have rows of four eggs.