Destiny just received two separate gifts from her great-great-grandmother.
The first gift is a box of 18 chocolate candy bars, and the second gift is a pack of 12 cookies.
Destiny wants to use all of the chocolate candy bars and cookies to make identical snack bags for her cousins.
What is the greatest number of snack bags that Destiny can make?
(1 point)
Responses
18
18
12
12
6
6
3
3
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To find the greatest number of snack bags that Destiny can make, we need to find the greatest common factor (GCF) of 18 and 12.
The prime factorization of 18 is 2 * 3 * 3.
The prime factorization of 12 is 2 * 2 * 3.
To find the GCF, we need to find the common factors of both numbers:
18: 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 18
12: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12
The greatest common factor is 6. Therefore, Destiny can make 6 identical snack bags. Answer: 6.