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What is the greatest number of identical bouquets that can be made out of 21 white and 91 red tulips if no flowers are to be left out? (Two bouquets are identical whenever the number of red tulips in the two bouquets is equal and the number of white tulips in the two bouquets is equal.)

A. 3
B. 4
C. 5
D. 6
E. 7

Please show me how to solve.
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What is the greatest number of identical bouquets that can be made out of 21 white and 91 red tulips if no flowers are to be left out? (Two bouquets are identical whenever the number of red tulips in the two bouquets is equal and the number of white tulips in the two bouquets is equal.)

A. 3
B. 4
C. 5
D. 6
E. 7

Please show me how to solve.

Since no flowers are to be left out, then the number of bouquets must be a factor of both 21 and 91. For example, we cannot have 2 bouquets since we cannot divide 91 red tulips into 2 bouquets without one tulip left over.

Only answer choice which is a factor of 91 is E (7).

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Look for the factors of 21 and 91:

white = 21 = 3 x 7
red = 91 = 13 x 7

The common factor is 7, thus the greatest number of identical bouquets is 7.

Let me explain graphically:

_______Identical Bouquets (7 bouquets)______________
$$\;\;\;\;\;\;$$White $$\;\;\;\;$$ Red
$$\;\;\;\;$$3 tulips$$\;\;\;\;$$ 13 tulips = 3 white and 13 red tulips
$$\;\;\;\;$$3 tulips$$\;\;\;\;$$ 13 tulips = 3 white and 13 red tulips
$$\;\;\;\;$$3 tulips$$\;\;\;\;$$ 13 tulips = 3 white and 13 red tulips
$$\;\;\;\;$$3 tulips$$\;\;\;\;$$ 13 tulips = 3 white and 13 red tulips
$$\;\;\;\;$$3 tulips$$\;\;\;\;$$ 13 tulips = 3 white and 13 red tulips
$$\;\;\;\;$$3 tulips$$\;\;\;\;$$ 13 tulips = 3 white and 13 red tulips
$$\;\;\;\;$$3 tulips$$\;\;\;\;$$ 13 tulips = 3 white and 13 red tulips
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"What is the greatest number of identical bouquets that can be made out of 21 white and 91 red tulips if no flowers are to be left out? (Two bouquets are identical whenever the number of red tulips in the two bouquets is equal and the number of white tulips in the two bouquets is equal.)"

What's to stop you from creating 21 bouquets, each containing 1 white tulip and 1 red tulip, and 1 bouquet containing 70 red tulips? In that scenario, you have 21 identical bouquets.

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"What is the greatest number of identical bouquets that can be made out of 21 white and 91 red tulips if no flowers are to be left out? (Two bouquets are identical whenever the number of red tulips in the two bouquets is equal and the number of white tulips in the two bouquets is equal.)"

What's to stop you from creating 21 bouquets, each containing 1 white tulip and 1 red tulip, and 1 bouquet containing 70 red tulips? In that scenario, you have 21 identical bouquets. Basically, my question is this: Is the question stem necessarily read to require that each bouquet made be identical?

Hi mh72,

In your 'scenario', you've left out 70 red tulips from the 21 bouquets that you made - but the prompt says that NO flowers are to be left out. Thus, your solution does not match the specific restrictions that the prompt gave you to work with.

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What is the greatest number of identical bouquets that can be made out of 21 white and 91 red tulips if no flowers are to be left out? (Two bouquets are identical whenever the number of red tulips in the two bouquets is equal and the number of white tulips in the two bouquets is equal.)

A. 3
B. 4
C. 5
D. 6
E. 7

Please show me how to solve.

This is a case of a question u don't understand but ended up getting it right.
only 7 is a factor of 21 and 91
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Here's my take.

Divide 91 red tulips by 21 white ones.
We get quotient of 4 and a remainder of 6 (these 6 are the white tulips) and 4 is the no. of identical bouquets. Now put the 6 white ones in each of the 2 bouquets (one white in first and one in second and so on). Thus we get 4+3 = 7
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The part in paranthesis really got me confused here, and i could not understand anything written there. I get the part outside the paranthesis, but then... ?
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The wording in the parentheses explains how a bouquet is identical with another bouquet as long as the number and type of flowers are the same.

For example:
A bouquet with 1 red flower and 1 white flower is the SAME as a bouquet with 1 white flower and 1 red flower
So RW and WR are the SAME bouquet

Another example:
RRW, RWR and WRR are all the SAME bouquet

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What is the greatest number of identical bouquets that can be made out of 21 white and 91 red tulips if no flowers are to be left out? (Two bouquets are identical whenever the number of red tulips in the two bouquets is equal and the number of white tulips in the two bouquets is equal.)

A. 3
B. 4
C. 5
D. 6
E. 7

Please show me how to solve.

maximum number of bouquets will be the number, which will divide 21 as well as 91
therefore the number of bouquets = HCF(21,91) = 7
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(Two bouquets are identical whenever the number of red tulips in the two bouquets is equal and the number of white tulips in the two bouquets is equal.)

Can anyone please explain the purpose of mentioning this information?
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(Two bouquets are identical whenever the number of red tulips in the two bouquets is equal and the number of white tulips in the two bouquets is equal.)

Can anyone please explain the purpose of mentioning this information?

This is explained here: https://gmatclub.com/forum/what-is-the- ... l#p1822895
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Shiv2016 wrote:
(Two bouquets are identical whenever the number of red tulips in the two bouquets is equal and the number of white tulips in the two bouquets is equal.)

Can anyone please explain the purpose of mentioning this information?

This is explained here: https://gmatclub.com/forum/what-is-the- ... l#p1822895

Thanks for the reply Bunuel. But does this information play any role in finding the GCD or its just an additional information?
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hi Bunuel ,,

(Two bouquets are identical whenever the number of red tulips in the two bouquets is equal and the number of white tulips in the two bouquets is equal.)

does it mean a bouquet should contain both white and red flowers??
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hi Bunuel ,,

(Two bouquets are identical whenever the number of red tulips in the two bouquets is equal and the number of white tulips in the two bouquets is equal.)

does it mean a bouquet should contain both white and red flowers??

You cannot have identical bouquets made out of 21 white and 91 red tulips if each of the bouquets does not contain both white and red tulips.

The answer to the question is that we can make 7 identical bouquets made out of 21 white and 91 red tulips, each containing 3 white and 13 red tulips.
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