A sweet shopkeeper prepares 396 gulab jamuns and 342 rasgullas. He packs them into containers, each container consists of gulab jamun or rasgulla, but has an equal number of pieces he should put in each container so that the number of containers is the least.

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answer is D.

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Concept- Look at the definition of the highest common factor first, then try to connect it to the supplied question. Now divide the two integers into prime factors. Find the factor that has the highest common denominator; this result is necessary.
Express the number as

We may express the number 17 as, by dividing it by 3,

We may express the number 57 as, by dividing it by 3,

The expression 19 can be written as, by dividing it by 19,

As 1 was the quotient, we must stop at this step. 396's prime factorization yields, when divided by 2,

We may express the number 198 as, by multiplying it by 2,

By dividing 99 by

, we can represent it as,

We can represent the number 11 by 11 as,

As the quotient is 1, we must stop here. The most prevalent are 2, 3, and 3. As a result of these,
Highest common factor

Hence, the correct answer is option 4

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