Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #12154: Least common multiple and greatest common divisor word problems - Least common multiple
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2012-01-26 03:26:38+00:00
State: open
Labels: chrome, wrong-or-unclear, xp

Reporter: davepowell@sandoaks.com

The question as to the maximum number of baskets she can sell does not state the baskets must all be the same. Since she bakes 28 different cookies, she could sell 28 baskets with 1 cookie each. 16 of them will be with choc cookies and 12 with oatmeal.

[least_common_multiple_and_greatest_common_divisor_word_problems.html?seed=113&problem=gcd-restaurant](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/least_common_multiple_and_greatest_common_divisor_word_problems.html?seed=113&problem=gcd-restaurant&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/least_common_multiple_and_greatest_common_divisor_word_problems.html?seed=113&problem=gcd-restaurant&debug&activity=%5B%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5C%2212%5C%22%22%2C17%5D%2C%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5C%2216%5C%22%22%2C52%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C17%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C31%5D%2C%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5C%2228%5C%22%22%2C49%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C2%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C8%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C15%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C42%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C56%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C63%5D%5D)

["12","16","28"]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.75 Safari/535.7

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