A grocery store is making identical fruit baskets. The store has 120 bananas, 60 oranges, and 144 apples. Find the greatest number of fruit baskets the store can make if each basket has to have the same number of each kind of fruit. a (write the prime factorization of 120, 60 and 144. b (what is the greatest number of fruit baskets the store can make? c (how many pieces of each type of fruit are in each basket?

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Finn Hampton

3 June, 04:16

A grocery store is making identical fruit baskets. The store has 120 bananas, 60 oranges, and 144 apples. Find the greatest number of fruit baskets the store can make if each basket has to have the same number of each kind of fruit. a (write the prime factorization of 120, 60 and 144. b (what is the greatest number of fruit baskets the store can make? c (how many pieces of each type of fruit are in each basket?

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Kelvin Blackwell · Answer 1

I think it's 60 baskets because it is the smallest number and the least number of each fruit you can have in a basket is 1 and each basket has to have the same amount of fruits