Maylin and Nina are making fruit baskets. They have 36 apples, 27 bananas, and 18 oranges. They want each basket to contain the same amount of each fruit. Maylin believes the greatest number of baskets they can make is 6, and Nina believes the greatest number of baskets they can make is 9.Determine the number of each fruit that will be in each basket. Show your work.

Question

Maylin and Nina are making fruit baskets. They have 36 apples, 27 bananas, and 18 oranges. They want each basket to contain the same amount of each fruit. Maylin believes the greatest number of baskets they can make is 6, and Nina believes the greatest number of baskets they can make is 9.Determine the number of each fruit that will be in each basket. Show your work.

Answer 1

36 apples ÷ 6 baskets = 6 apples per basket

27 bananas ÷ 6 baskets = 4.5 bananas per basket

18 oranges ÷ 6 baskets = 3 oranges per basket

Since the baskets need to contain the same amount of each fruit, the greatest number of baskets they can make is 6, with each basket containing 6 apples, 4 bananas, and 3 oranges.