The owner of a candy store packs all of the sweets from a box into packets of 9, 12, 18 sweets .

a. what is the smallest number of sweets a box must contain if no sweets are to remain after packing?

b. There are 180 sweets to be packed. what is the largest number of packets that can be obtained?

A. What number would have all of those three values as factors? Pick the smallest.

B. The smallest packets would give the largest number of packets.

39

4

36 and 20

39 and 3

39 and 60

39 and 10

18 and 39

18 and 41

18 and 36

36 and 18