Carlos has 32 iris bulbs and 40 tulip bulbs to plant. He wants to plant them in rows with one type of bulb in each row. He wants all of the rows to have the same number of bulbs. The greatest number of bulbs he can plant in each row is?

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GCF(32,40) = 8

so there are 4 rows of irises and 5 rows of tulips, all rows with 8 bulbs.
What is the greatest common factor of 32 and 40? the answer is 8
Lyssa and Carlos own a hardware store. They sell a certain type of light bulb in packages that each contain 242424 bulbs. The back of each package says, "The expected number of broken or defective bulbs per package is 0.250.250, point, 25."
Lyssa says, "If we look at 100100100 packages, we expect to see a total of about 250250250 broken or defective bulbs."
Carlos says, "Any given package most likely contains 0.250.250, point, 25 broken or defective bulbs."