By coincidence, William's Paint Supplies sold equal quantities of two paint colours yesterday: yellow and blue. All yellow paint comes in 9-litre containers while blue paint is sold in containers of 18 litre. What is the smallest amount of each paint colour the store must have sold? You will need to show your working out to this in the next question

By coincidence, William's Paint Supplies sold equal quantities of two

1.	By coincidence, William's Paint Supplies sold equal quantities of two paint colours yesterday: yellow and blue. All yellow paint comes in 9-litre containers while blue paint is sold in containers of 18 litre. What is the smallest amount of each paint colour the store must have sold? You will need to show your working out to this in the next question
Answer» <html><body><p><strong>Answer:</strong></p><p><a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/18-278913" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about 18">18</a> litres</p><p><strong>Step-by-step explanation:</strong></p><p>As you have said they were sold in <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/equal-446400" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about EQUAL">EQUAL</a> quantities then we will take <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/lcm-15067" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about LCM">LCM</a> of 9 and 18 i.e. 18 Then we can find out that at <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/least-7256596" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about LEAST">LEAST</a> 18 litre of paint of each colour must have been sold to make both the <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/colours-922482" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about COLOURS">COLOURS</a> sold of equal quantity.</p></body></html>