Tayli wishes to advertise her business, So she gives packs of 13 red flyers to each restaurant owner in sets of 20 blue flyers to each clothing store owner. At the end of the day, Tayli realizes that she gave out the same number of red and blue flyers. What is the minimum number of flyers of each color she distributed?

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Goblin

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22 December, 02:54

Tayli wishes to advertise her business, So she gives packs of 13 red flyers to each restaurant owner in sets of 20 blue flyers to each clothing store owner. At the end of the day, Tayli realizes that she gave out the same number of red and blue flyers. What is the minimum number of flyers of each color she distributed?

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Ibrahim Schroeder · Answer 1

As she gave out the reds in groups of 13 and the blues in sets of 20, our answer has to be divisible by both of these!

think of it like finding the lowest common denominator for a fraction!

in this case, the lowest number both go into is 260 (13X20)