you are filling an identical fruit bowl with 36 apples and 48 oranges.what is the greatest number of bowls that you can fill using the numbers
It would help if you proofread your questions before you posted them.
You only indicate one bowl and do not indicate the capacity of a bowl.
Mathematics, not mathamatics
LCF
Least Common Factor
LCF(36,48) = 1
That's not much help.
But GCF(36,48) = 12
So, 12 bowls
To find out the greatest number of identical fruit bowls that can be filled using the given numbers, we need to find the greatest common divisor (GCD) of 36 and 48.
One way to find the GCD is by listing the factors of each number:
Factors of 36: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 12, 18, 36
Factors of 48: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 24, 48
The common factors of 36 and 48 are: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12
The greatest common divisor (GCD) is the largest number that divides both 36 and 48 evenly, which in this case is 12.
Therefore, the greatest number of identical fruit bowls that can be filled using 36 apples and 48 oranges is 12 bowls.