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by sud21 » Fri Jan 27, 2012 9:36 am
A school distributes toys to children. Each of the children gets same number of toys and no toy was left. If each child can get 3, 5, or 6 toys in the way, what is the least number of the toys?
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by MakeUrTimeCount » Fri Jan 27, 2012 2:12 pm
Let's say there are 'c' children and 't' toys.
So each child should get t/c toys.

If each child can get 3, 5, or 6 toys. = t/c
So t = minimum number of toys should be HCM of (3,5,6) = 30
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