Problema Solution
A child has 48 quarters and 80 dimes. The child wishes to stack the coins so that each stack has the same number of coins, and each stack contains only one kind of coin. What is the largest number of coin that the child can place in each stack?
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Since the greatest common factor for 48 and 80 is 16 we conclude that the largest number of coins per stack is 16.
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