A Bakery Makes Three Types of Muffins to Be Distributed

question 17

Multiple Choice

A bakery makes three types of muffins to be distributed to local grocery stores: chocolate chip,
Blueberry, and banana nut. Each morning, the bakers produce 120 chocolate chip muffins, 80
Blueberry muffins, and 80 banana nut. They want to package the muffins efficiently for shipping.
The plan is to pack them in boxes so that every box has just one kind of muffin, and every box has
The same number of muffins. What's the smallest number of boxes they can ship in total?

• A)280 boxes
• B)2 boxes
• C)40 boxes
• D)7 boxes

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