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    Tim has a bag of 36 orange-flavoured sweets and Peter has a bag of 44 grape-flavoured sweets. They have to divide up the sweets into small trays with equal number of sweets; each tray containing either orange-flavoured or grape-flavoured sweets only. If there is no remainder, find the largest possible number of sweets in each tray.

    A) 8                                 

    B) 11              

    C) 4  

    D) 6

    Correct Answer: C

    Solution :

    GCF, is the greatest factor that divides two numbers, thus in the question, we will be calculating the GCF. Tim has a bag of 36 orange-flavoured sweets and Peter has a bag of 44 grape-flavoured sweets. For calculating, we need to calculate the factors of 36 and 44. Factors of \[36=2\times 2\times 3\times 3;\] Factors of \[44=2\times 2\times 11\] Thus GCF = \[2\times 2=4,\] Therefore the largest possible number of sweets in each tray is 4.                               


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