The school cafeteria serves tacos every sixth day and cheeseburgers every eight day. If tacos and cheeseburgers are both on today’s menu, how many days will it be before they are both on the menu again?
24 days
The LCM of 18 and 27.
What is 54?
Lisa is making activity baskets to donate to charity. She has 12 coloring books, 24 markers, and 36 crayons. What is the greatest number of baskets she can make if each type of toy is equally distributed among the baskets? How many of each supply will go into the baskets?
12 baskets; 1 coloring book, 2 markers, 3 crayons
Caleb has baseball practice every four days and football practice every six days. If he has both baseball practice and football practice on the same day, how many more days until he will have baseball practice and football practice on the same day again?
12 days
Justin bought equal amounts of individual Starbursts and Snickers at the store. The Starbursts come in packages of 16. The Snickers come in packages of 20. What is the smallest number of individual Snickers that he could have bought? How many packages of Snickers did he buy?
80 snickers; 4 packages
Katie is making party bags for her birthday. She has 32 cookies, 16 small toys, and 24 bracelets. She wants each bag to have the same amount of cookies, toys and bracelets. What is the greatest number of identical party bags she can make? How many cookies, toys, and bracelets will each bag have?
8 party bags; 4 cookies, 2 toys, and 3 bracelets