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PROBLEMS AND EXERCISES WITH THE LEAST COMMON MULTIPLE AND THE HIGHEST COMMON DIVISOR 1) The lengths of three streets are, respectively, 700 m, 540 m and 200 m. The town council wants to plant trees in such a way that the distance between them is always the same and that they use as few as possible. What should the distance be between a each tree? 2) The students going on a trip can gather in groups of two, three and seven people and nobody is left in each case. a) How many students are there? Find, at least, four different solutions. b) What is the smallest number of students? 3) The bus number 16 leaves every 20 minutes. The bus 24 leaves every 30 minutes. If both of them are at the bus station at nine oclock, when will they be together at the bus station again? 4) In a natural park there are two nearby camps. One of them has 300 campers and the other one has 140 campers. In order to organize some activities and games, they want to distribute all the members of each camp in the smallest number of groups with the same number of members. How many campers must each group have? 5) A box of oranges contains between 70 and 100 units. If they are counted in fours or in sevens no orange is left. How many oranges are there? 6) The measurements of a room are 640 cm in length and 440 cm in width. They want to tile it with square tiles as big as possible in such a way that they dont have to break any. a) What should be the measurements of the tiles? b) How many tiles would they need? 7) A fruit seller has 180 kg of apples and 160 kg of pears. He wants to put them in boxes of the same capacity. What is the maximum amount of kilos he can put in each box? How many boxes will he need for each fruit? 8) Calculate the highest common divisor and the least common multiple of the following sets of numbers: a) 200, 150, 132 h) 2450, 500, 3600 b) 50, 55, 155 i) 1050, 340, 3400 c) 180, 200, 225 j) 250, 2500, 3280 d) 280, 390, 425 k) 1800, 300, 450 e) 1200, 900, 550 l) 1400, 1600, 650 f) 1325, 1000, 1500 m) 1345, 545, 725 g) 2500, 1600, 550 n) 325, 3900, 5342

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