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Word Problems Involving Greatest Common Factor and Least Common Multiple Read Each Question Carefully and Think About What The Question Is Asking

The document contains 14 word problems involving finding the greatest common factor (GCF) and least common multiple (LCM). The problems involve dividing items into containers, stacking boxes, tour schedules, blinking lights, arranging students in teams, gift bags at an amusement park, swimming and diving lesson schedules, serving hot dogs and buns, forming intramural teams, a pig race, and making balloon arrangements. The goal is to find the maximum number of items or groups while using all items in problems involving GCF and LCM.

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Word Problems Involving Greatest Common Factor and Least Common Multiple Read Each Question Carefully and Think About What The Question Is Asking

The document contains 14 word problems involving finding the greatest common factor (GCF) and least common multiple (LCM). The problems involve dividing items into containers, stacking boxes, tour schedules, blinking lights, arranging students in teams, gift bags at an amusement park, swimming and diving lesson schedules, serving hot dogs and buns, forming intramural teams, a pig race, and making balloon arrangements. The goal is to find the maximum number of items or groups while using all items in problems involving GCF and LCM.

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Word Problems Involving Greatest Common Factor And Least Common Multiple

Read each question carefully and think about what the question is asking.

1. Kiara baked 30 oatmeal cookies and 48 chocolate chip cookies to package in plastic containers
for her teacher friends at school. She wants to divide the cookies into identical containers so that each container
has the same number of each kind of cookie. If she wants each container to have the greatest number of
cookies possible, how many plastic containers does she need?

2. Boxes that are 12 inches tall are being stacked next to boxes that are 18 inches tall. What is
the shortest height at which the two stacks will be the same height?

3. Beginning at 8:30 A.M., tours of the National Capitol and the White House begin at a tour
agency. Tours for the National Capitol leave every 15 minutes. Tours for the White House
leave every 20 minutes. How often do the tours leave at the same time?

4. Two neon lights are turned on at the same time. One blinks every 4 seconds and the other
blinks every 6 seconds. In 60 seconds, how many times will they blink at the same time?

5. The table shows the number of students in the school choir.

School Choir
Students Number
Girls 48
Boys 64

The choir teacher plans to arrange the students in equal rows. Only girls or boys will be in each row. What is
the greatest number of students that could be in each row?

6. At a display booth at an amusement park, every visitor gets a gift bag. Some of the bags have items in them as
shown in this table.

Items in the Gift Bags


Items Bags
Hat Every 2nd visitor
T-shirt Every 7th visitor
Backpack Every 10th visitor
How often will a bag contain all
three items?

7. Bridget has swimming lessons every fifth day and diving lessons every third day. If she had
a swimming lesson and a diving lesson on May 5, when will be the next date on which she
has both swimming and diving lessons?

8. Hot dogs come in packages of 8. Hot dog buns come in packages of 12. If Grace wants to
have enough to serve 24 people and have none left over, how many packages of hot dogs and
hot dog buns should she purchase?

9. There are 40 girls and 32 boys who want to participate in 6th grade intramurals. If each
team must have the same number of girls and the same number of boys, what is the
greatest number of teams that can participate in intramurals?

How many girls and boys will be on each team?


10. Three pigs entered a race around a track. Piggly takes 6 minutes to run one lap. Piglet takes 3 minutes to run
one lap and it takes Wiggly 5 minutes to run one lap. If all three pigs begin the race at the same time, how many
minutes will it take for all three pigs to be at the starting point again?

11. Shannon is making identical balloon arrangements for a party. She has 32 maroon balloons, 24 white balloons,
and 16 orange balloons. She wants each arrangement to have the same number of each color. What is the
greatest number of arrangements that she can make if every balloon is used?

12. There are 40 girls and 32 boys who want to participate in 6th grade intramurals. If each
team must have the same number of girls and the same number of boys, what is the
greatest number of teams that can participate in intramurals?

How many girls and boys will be on each team?

13. Three pigs entered a race around a track. Piggly takes 6 minutes to run one lap. Piglet takes 3 minutes to run
one lap and it takes Wiggly 5 minutes to run one lap. If all three pigs begin the race at the same time, how many
minutes will it take for all three pigs to be at the starting point again?

14. Shannon is making identical balloon arrangements for a party. She has 32 maroon balloons, 24 white balloons,
and 16 orange balloons. She wants each arrangement to have the same number of each color. What is the
greatest number of arrangements that she can make if every balloon is used?

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