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Tao Nan 2025 P6 Maths Prelim — Paper 1 Booklet A Q14 Solution

Paper 1 Booklet A · Q14 · 2 marks · Whole Numbers

Question

Lisa packed 60 cream cookies and 75 mint cookies into as many boxes as possible. She packed the same number of each type of cookies in each box. How many mint cookies were there in each box?

1. 5
2. 9
3. 15
4. 4

Answer: 1

Worked solution

\text{HCF}(60, 75) = 15 \text{ boxes}
\text{Mint per box} = 75 \div 15 = 5

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