Jazmin is completing an art project. She has two pieces of construction paper. The first piece is 4 cm wide and the second piece is 3 cm wide. Jazmin wants to cut the paper into strips that are equal in width and are as wide as possible. How wide should Jazmin cut each strip?

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Taliyah Hinton

15 July, 23:14

Jazmin is completing an art project. She has two pieces of construction paper. The first piece is 4 cm wide and the second piece is 3 cm wide. Jazmin wants to cut the paper into strips that are equal in width and are as wide as possible. How wide should Jazmin cut each strip?

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Terrell Dunn · Answer 1

1 cm

Step-by-step explanation:

Jazmin has two pieces of construction paper. The first piece is 4 cm wide and the second piece is 3 cm wide.

As Jazmin wants to cut the paper into strips that are equal in width and are as wide as possible, so we need to find greatest common factor of 4 and 3.

Factors of 4 are: 1, 2, 4.

Factors of 33 are: 1, 3.

We can see that 1 is the greatest common factor of 4 and 3,

therefore, Jazmin should cut each strip 1cm wide.