Question

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

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