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A sweet shop in Varanasi packs the cookies and fudge pieces shown into bags. Every bag holds the same number of sweets, each bag has only one kind, and nothing is left over. What is the greatest number of sweets one bag can hold?

Class 6HCF and LCMPlaying with Numbers
  • A6
  • B3
  • C2
  • D72

Step-by-Step Solution

Count: 18 cookies and 24 fudge pieces. The bag size must divide both, so the greatest is HCF. (3 and 2 also divide both but are not the greatest; 72 is the LCM.)
Answer: A) 6

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