Pecola wanted to eat pudding everyday. There are 7 days in the week, but pudding only is sold in packs of 6. Pecola solved his problem by eating all 6 pudding cups at once. Is there a mathematical way to solve Pecola's problem?
Pecola could have thought of his problem as a least common multiple problem. The least common multiple(lcm) of 6 and 7 is 42. 42 is the smallest number that 6 and 7 divde into. The least common multiple is defined as the smallest number that the given numbers divide into.
Pecola could have bought 7 packs of pudding. He would have enough pudding every day for 6 weeks. He would need to buy 7 packs of pudding every 6 weeks to have pudding every day of the week without missing a day.
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