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A fruit production company has three packaging facilities, each of which uses different-sized boxes as follows: 20 pieces/box, 28 pieces/box, and 36 pieces/box. Step 1 of 2: Assuming that the truck provides the same quantity of uniformly-sized pieces of fruit to all three packaging facilities, what is the minimum number of pieces of fruit that will be delivered so that no fruit will be left over

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Answer:

  1260

Step-by-step explanation:

The required number is the Least Common Multiple of the box sizes:

  LCM(20, 28, 36) = 4·5·7·9 = 1260

1260 pieces of fruit will be delivered so that none is left over.

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