Tamika has 48 pencils and 80 pens that she is dividing up evenly in teacher supply boxes that
will contain both pencils and pens.
(a) What is the greatest number of boxes she can use so that each box contains the same
number of pencils and each box contains the same number of pens? Justify.
Hint: Look at the bold underlined word, that should be a good clue as to what strateg
to use.
(b) Based on your answer to (a), how many pencils and how many pens will be in each b
The Upside Down Birthday Cake/Ladder Method works great here.