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This morning, Mr. Singh will make strawberry-banana shakes using 300 strawberries and 60 bananas. Mr. Singh knows that he will use more strawberries than bananas in each shake , and he does not want to have any leftovers fruit. He wants all of the shakes to have equalnumbers of whole bananas and equal numbers of whole strawberries .

To make the greatest number of strawberry-banana shakes possible , how many bananas and how many strawberries should Mr. Singh use for each shake?

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Since Mr. singh wants to use whole numer of bananas so he will get greatest number of strawberry-banana shakes if he uses 1 banana for each shake.

There are total 60 bananas so by this he can make 60 shakes.

Now let us find number of strawberries for each shake.

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