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Q.

A school library has 280 science books and 300 math books. Students were told to stack these journals in such a way that each stack contains an equal number of books. Find the number of stacks of science and math books.


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a

  14,15

b

  17,14

c

  32,23

d

  18,13 

answer is A.

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Detailed Solution

Concept- In order to solve the given question, we will use the HCF and LCM .
Here,
Number of science books=280
Number of math books=300
Then,
HCF of both 280,300=20
Therefore,
Number of stacks of science books=28020=14
Number of stacks of math books=30020=15
So, the correct answer is  14,15.
Hence, the correct option is 1.
 
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