Three sets of English, mathematics and science books containing 336, 240 and 96 books respectively have to be stacked in such a way that all the books are stored subjectwise and the height of each stack is the same. How many stacks will be there ?

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Take HCF of 336, 240, 96
HCF would come out to be 48
divide 336, 240, 96 by 48
no.will be 7, 5, 2
add all three of them (7+2+5=14)

no of stacks are 14

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Three sets of English, hindi and mathematics books have to be stacked in such a way that all the books are stored topic wise and the height of each stack is the same. The number of English books is 96, the number of hindi books is 240 and the number mathematics books is 336.

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Three sets of English, mathematics and science books containing 336, 240 and 96 books respectively have to be stacked in such a way that all the books are stored subjectwise and the height of each stack is the same. How many stacks will be there ?

Take HCF of 336, 240, 96 HCF would come out to be 48 divide 336, 240, 96 by 48 no.will be 7, 5, 2 add all three of them (7+2+5=14) no of stacks are 14

Take HCF of 336, 240, 96
HCF would come out to be 48
divide 336, 240, 96 by 48
no.will be 7, 5, 2
add all three of them (7+2+5=14)

no of stacks are 14