Juanita want to give bags of sticker to her friends she wanted to give the same numbers of stickers to each friend she not sure if she needs 4bags or 6bags of stickers how many stickers could she buy so there are no left over
English · Middle School · Mon Jan 18 2021
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Given the statement:
Juanita wants to give bags of stickers to her friends she wanted to give the same numbers of stickers to each friend she not sure if she needs 4bags or 6bags of stickers.
Determine how many bags of stickers does she need so that there is no leftover.
Solution:
In order to determine the answer, we must first find the least common multiple of 4 and 6, to do so simply list the multiples of each number.
Multiples of 4:
4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28,…
Multiples of 6:
6, 12, 18, 24, 30, 36, 42, …
The least common multiple is 12.
Final answer:
12 bags are needed so that there will be no leftover.