Casey has 48 red peppers and 16 yellow peppers. If Casey wants to put the peppers into baskets so that each basket has the same number of red peppers and the same number of yellow peppers, what is the greatest number of baskets he can make? How many of each type of pepper will be in each basket?

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Andre Bernard

Mathematics

15 April, 08:06

Casey has 48 red peppers and 16 yellow peppers. If Casey wants to put the peppers into baskets so that each basket has the same number of red peppers and the same number of yellow peppers, what is the greatest number of baskets he can make? How many of each type of pepper will be in each basket?

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Ulises Wells · Answer 1

16 baskets, each containing 3 red peppers and 1 yellow pepper

Step-by-step explanation:

The greatest common factor (GCF) of the two numbers can be found a variety of ways. It is simplest just to recognize that 16 is a divisor of 48, so is the GCF of the two numbers Since that number divides both evenly, the respective quotients will be the number of peppers in each of the 16 baskets.

(48 red peppers) / (16 baskets) = 3 red peppers/basket

(16 yellow peppers) / (16 baskets) = 1 yellow pepper/basket