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You are making balloon arrangements for a birthday party. there are 16 white balloons and 24 red balloons. each arrangement must be identical. what is the greatest number of arrangements you can make using every balloon?

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This is basically a GCF problem. To find the GCF, we list the factors of each number.
24 = 1×24, 2×12, 4×6, 8×3 ...


16 = 1×16, 2×8, 4×4, ... 

The greatest common factor is 8 because it is the greatest factor we can find.
So 8 arrangements

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