Cy has 42 baseball cards and 70 football cards that he wants to group into packages. Each package will have the same number of cards and each package will have the same numbers of baseball cards and football cards. How many packages will Cy make if he uses all of the cards

Answer 1

8? Right

Answer 2

the greatest common factor (GCF) of 42 and 70 is 14

42 / 14 = 3 ... 70 / 14 = 5

14 packages ... each containing 5 football cards and 3 baseball cards