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Ravi's Apparel sells undershirts in packs of 2. The store's competitor, Sanket's Basics, sells undershirts in packs of 4. If both stores sold the same number of undershirts yesterday, what is the smallest number of undershirts each could have sold?
What is 4
A child is arranging green blocks in groups of 4 and purple blocks in groups of 6. If she has the same number of green and purple blocks, what is the smallest number of each color that she could have?
What is 12.
Kim goes to the grocery store every 12 days and visits the gym every 9 days. If she did both errands today, how many days will pass before she does both on the same day again?
What is 36 days.
At a family reunion, each of Will's aunts and uncles is getting photographed once. The aunts are taking pictures in groups of 6 and the uncles are taking pictures in groups of 4. If Will has the same total number of aunts and uncles, what is the minimum number of aunts that Will must have?
What is 12 aunts.
A train to New York city leaves a station every 7 minutes. Another train to Boston leaves the station every 6 minutes. Suppose it is 6:30 am right now. At what time will both trains leave the station together?
What is 7:12 am.
(6:30am + 42 min = 7:12 am )