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Shannon is collecting art supplies. She has 48 crayons, 24 markers, and 16 stickers. She divided the crayons into 8 equal groups, the markers into 6 equal groups, and the stickers into 4 equal groups. She promised her brother that he could have one group from each type of art supplies. How many art supplies does her brother get?

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Find how many art supplies are there in a group by type:

  • For the crayons, there are 488=6\frac{48}{8}=6 crayons per group.
  • For the markers, there are 246=4\frac{24}{6}=4 markers per group.
  • For the stickers, there are 164=4\frac{16}{4}=4 stickers per group.

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Since Shannon's brother gets a group from each type of art supplies, then he got a total of:

6+4+4=14 art supplies6+4+4=\color{#c34632}14\text{ art supplies}

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