Jim Rome is making prizes for a game at school Fair he has two bags of different pins one with 15 pins and one with 20 pins every prize will have one kind of pain and will have the greatest number of pins possible how many pens should be in each prize

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9 November, 16:02

Jim Rome is making prizes for a game at school Fair he has two bags of different pins one with 15 pins and one with 20 pins every prize will have one kind of pain and will have the greatest number of pins possible how many pens should be in each prize

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Stephen Goodwin · Answer 1

You have to find the greatest common factor of the two numbers 15 and 20. The greatest common factor is 5, so Jerome can give out 5 pieces of candy as a prize from each bag; three prizes from the bag of 15 and 4 prizes from the bag of 20.