A few days ago
Van.essa

help me with this math exercise, thanks?

Sandy has 135 purple balls, 150 yellow n 165 red. For each colour, she wants to divide the balls into bags with equal number of balls. At the same time, the number of bags used for each colour must be the same.

a. What is the greatest number of bags that Sandy can have for each colour?

b. How many balls are there in each bad for each colour?

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A few days ago
Anonymous

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The answer will be the GCF (Greatest Common Factor) of these numbers. Bear in mind, that the number of bags should be equal, and NOT the number of balls in each bag.

135 = 5*3*3*3

150 = 5*3*5*2

165 = 5*11*3

a) The GCF is 15.

b)

No of balls in purple bag = 135/15 = 9

No of balls in yellow bag = 150/15 = 10

No of balls in red bag = 165/15 = 11

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