The greatest number of shelves Melanie can fill is 15 shelves
Given :
Melanie has 45 horse statues and 60 elephant statues
She wants to put them on shelves so that the same number of each type of statue are on each shelf.
To find greatest number of shelves , we need to take GCF of 45 and 60
Lets find out GCF, greatest common factor
First write the factors for 45 and 60
45 --> 3,3,5
60 --> 2,3,2,5
Common factors are 3,5
GCF is 15
She needs 15 shelves to fill .
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