To find out how many students are in the class, we need to find the greatest common divisor (GCD) of the number of pencils and erasers that the teacher has.
The GCD of 72 and 96 is 24.
This means that the teacher can create gift bags with 24 pencils and 24 erasers each.
To distribute all the pencils and erasers, the teacher will need to divide the total number of pencils (72) and erasers (96) by the number in each gift bag (24).
So, the teacher has a class of 3 students.
A teacher is making back to school supply gifts for his students. He has 72 pencils and 96 erasers. If he is giving each student the same number of pencils and the same number of erasers, how many students are in his class? He will have no extra bags after he distributes them. (1 point)There must be students in his class.
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