Jack made cookies for Remembrance Day. He made 2 1/3 dozen chocolate cookies, 1 dozen peanut cookies, and 1 1/2 dozen oatmeal cookies. If he puts the same number of each cookie in each bag and has no cookies left over, what is the largest number of bags he can fill?
+237 Jack made 2 1/3 dozen chocolate cookies,
1 dozen peanut cookies
1 1/2 dozen oatmeal cookies.
1 dozen = 12 cookies
Therfore, 2 1/3 * 12 = 7/3 * 12
= 84/3
= 28 chocolate cookies
1 * 12 = 12 peanut cookies
1 1/2 * 12 = 3/2 * 12
= 36/2
= 18 oatmeal cookies
Find the greatest common denominator;
2 | 28 12 18
|-----------------
14 6 9
He could fill 2 bags with the same
number of each cookies in each bag.
