Greatest common divisor (GCD) - math word problems

Number of problems found: 61

  • The tickets
    oriesky The tickets to the show cost some integer number greater than 1. Also, the sum of the price of the children's and adult tickets, as well as their product, was the power of the prime number. Find all possible ticket prices.
  • Ornamental shrubs
    delnik_3 Children committed to plant 240 ornamental shrubs. Their commitment however exceeded by 48 shrubs. Write ratio of actually planted shrubs and commitment by lowest possible integers a/b.
  • Hectares
    tractor_8 The tractor plows the first day of 4.5ha, the second day 6.3ha and the third day 5.4ha. It worked whole hours a day, and its hourly performance did not change and was the highest of the possible. How many hectares did it plow in one hour (what is it perfo
  • Cubes
    krychlicky Carol with cut bar 12 cm x 12 cm x 135 cm to the cubes. Find the sum of all the surfaces of the resulting cubes.
  • Sponsor
    tenis_2 The children of the tennis school received 64 white and 48 yellow balls from the sponsor. When asked about how many balls they could take, they were answered: "You have so many that none of you will have more than 10 balls and all will have the same numbe
  • Apples and pears
    hrusky2 Mom divided 24 apples and 15 pears to children. Each child received the same number of apples and pears - same number as his siblings. How many apples (j=?) and pears (h=?) received each child?
  • Segments
    segments Line segments 62 cm and 2.2 dm long we divide into equal parts which lengths in centimeters is expressed integer. How many ways can we divide?
  • Square gardens
    zahrada_1 The gardening colony with dimensions of 180 m and 300 m is to be completely divided into equally large square areas with the largest possible area. Calculate how many such square areas can be obtained and determine the side length of the square.
  • Long bridge
    bridge Roman walked on the bridge. When he heard the whistle, he turned and saw running Kamil at the beginning of the bridge. If he went to him, they would meet in the middle of the bridge. Roman, however, rushed and so did not want to waste time returning 150m.
  • Plumber
    klempir The plumber had to cut the metal strip with dimensions 380 cm and 60 cm to the largest squares to no waste. Calculate the length of the sides of a square. How many squares cut it?
  • Paving - joints
    tiles_6 We are paving with rectangular pavement 18 cm × 24 cm was placed side by side in height in a row and in the second row in width etc. How many times will the joints meet at a distance 10 m?
  • Dividing
    plot2_2 Divide the three line segment 13 cm, 26 cm and 19.5 cm long for parts so that the individual parts were equally long and longest. How long will the individual parts and how many it will?
  • Three lines
    clocks2 At 6 am, three bus lines are departing from the station. The first line has an interval of 24 minutes. The second line has an interval of 15 minutes. The third line runs at regular intervals of more than 1 minute. The third line runs at the same time as t
  • Garden
    zahon_6 The garden has the shape of a rectangle measuring 19m20cm and 21m60cm. Mr. Novák will fence it. It wants the distance between adjacent pillars to be at least two meters and a maximum of three meters. He would also like the distances between the adjacent p
  • Gardens colony
    kolonie Gardens colony with dimensions of 180 m and 300 m are to be completely divided into the same large squares of the highest area. Calculate how many such squares can be obtained and determine the length of the square side.
  • Glass panel
    glass_4 A rectangular glass panel with dimensions of 72 cm and 96 cm will cut the glazier on the largest square possible. What is the length of the side of each square? How many squares does the glazier cut?
  • Janka and Danka
    books_3 Janka and Danka began to read the same day the books. Janka had 276 pages, Danka 204 pages. They agreed that both read every day the same number of pages until theirs books read. A) How many maximum pages they had to read the day to honor their agreement?
  • A large
    two-gears A large gear will be used to turn a smaller gear. The large gear will make 75 revolutions per minute. The smaller gear must make 384 revolutions per minute. Find the smallest number of teeth each gear could have. [Hint: Use either GCF or LCM. ]
  • Profitable company
    penize Three businessman decide to open up their own company. They agree to distribute the yearly profits made in the same ratio as their initial investments. They invest R 50 000, R 75 000 and R25 000, respectively. The profit made by the company in the first y
  • Bricks pyramid
    The_Great_Pyramid How many 50cm x 32cm x 30cm brick needed to built a 272m x 272m x 278m pyramid?

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