Question

Raghu's mother wants to pack $88$ sweets, $66$ pencils and $44$ erases into boxed for his birthday to give as return gifts to his friends. The sweets, pencils and erasers should be equally distributed among the boxes. Find the maximum number of boxes that can be packed and the number of sweets, pencils and erasers that can be packed in each box.

Answer 1

To find the max number of boxes to be packed we need to find the HCF.

$88=2\times 2\times 2\times 1166=2\times 3\times 1144=2\times 2\times 11HCF=2\times 11=22$

So $22$ no . of boxes are needed to be packed.

No .of sweets in each box $\frac{88}{22}=4$

No .of pencils in each box $\frac{66}{22}=3$

No .of erasers in each box $\frac{44}{22}=2$