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Mary is making fruit baskets. She has 15 apples and 12 oranges. Mary wants to make all the fruit baskets identical without having any pieces of fruit left over. What is the greatest number of fruit baskets Mary can make?

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Answer: she can make 12 baskets

Step-by-step explanation: she can put one of each fruit in the baskets and with the 3 remaining apples she can split them into fours,

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Answer:

The greatest number of identical baskets that Mary can make is 3.

Step-by-step explanation:

If we experiment and make a basket of 5 apples and 4 oranges, the basket

will be seen to hold 9 pieces of fruit, and 3 of these smaller baskets contain a total of 27 pieces (same as 15 apples + 12 oranges), which satisfies the constraints of the problem statement:

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Clearly, we have 3 small baskets with 5 apples each plus 4 oranges each.

The greatest number of identical baskets that Mary can make is 3.