Question

rita has 126 orange flavoured and 162 chocolate flavoured sweets . find the greatest number of plates among which she can distribute all the sweets with all plates holding the same number of sweets of each flavour.

Answer 1

If you're going to ask, can you please ask in portuguese?

You want Maximun Common Divisor, right? Ok.

(Drawing to help to explain.)

She will distribute 18 candies on each plate and there will be 16 plates as well, because:

16 × 18 = 288

126 + 162 = 288!

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Hope I helped you! ^^

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Português:

Se você vai perguntar, pode por favor perguntar em português?

Você quer Máximo Divisor Comum, certo? Ok...

(Desenho para ajudar a explicar)

Ela vai distribuir 18 doces em cada prato, e vão ter 16 pratos, porque:

16 × 18 = 288

126 + 162 = 288!

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Espero ter ajudado! ^^