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Ms. Mason is packaging science supplies for groups of students. She has 40 hand lenses, 32 pairs of tweezers and 28 pens. She wants to package the supplies so that every group has the same number of hand lenses, tweezers and pens.
Use prime factorization to determine the greatest number of packages she can make without having leftover items.
Then, determine the number of lenses, tweezers and pens that will be in each package.
What is 4 packages? There will be 10 hand lenses, 8 pairs of tweezers, and 7 pens in each package.