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Mathematics
Quarter 2 - Module 7: Week 3
Solving Real-Life Problems Involving GCF
and LCM

Department of Education Republic of the Philippines

Mathematics – Grade 4
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Quarter 2 - Module 7: Solving Real – Life Problems Involving GCF and LCM
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Mathematics
Quarter 2 - Module 7: Week 3
Solving Real-Life Problem involving GCF
and LCM

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What This Module is About

Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations or

algorithm: It is about understanding (William Paul Thurston, American
Mathematician). In order to understand Mathematics, it must find
relevance in the experiences and life of the learners. When problems
and questions are interconnected with real – life situations, it is giving
importance and meaning to the life of the learners which enables them to
appreciate the beauty and power of analysis and reasoning through their
experiences.

The 21st century learners are enthusiastic, creative and capable of

analyzing every situation to come up with a good judgement. Hence, this
module is designed to cater the needs of the learner to improve in the
field of mathematics.

The presentations in this module are simple. The competencies

are aligned with the requirements of the Department of Education. They
unfold the concepts and skills in an easy – to – understand ways. The
problem situations and illustrations are informative and socially –
oriented. This module offers challenges to equip the learners as they get
ready for Math in the next level.

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 What I Need to Know

In this module, you will learn to solve real-life problems involving

GCF and LCM.

The previous lesson about finding the GCF and LCM using different
methods will be og great help for you in this topic. Another important
previous lesson is on the steps to follow when solving word problems.
Solving each exercises step by step will help you arrive at the correct
answer.

How to Learn from this Module

For you to achieve the objectives cited above, you are to do the
following:
• Take your time reading the lessons carefully.

• Follow the directions and/or instructions in the activities and

exercises diligently.

• Answer all the given tests and exercises.

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Icons of this Module
What I Need This part contains learning objectives
to Know that are set for you to learn as you go
along the module.

What I Know This is an assessment as to your

level of knowledge to the subject
matter at hand, meant specifically to
gauge prior related knowledge.
What’s In This part connects previous lessons
with that of what you are going to
learn.

What’s New An introduction of the new lesson

through various activities, before it
will be presented to you.

What is It These are discussions of the

activities as a way to deepen your
discovery and understanding of the
concept.
What’s More These are follow-up activities that are
intended for you to practice further in
order to master the competencies.

What I Have Activities designed to process what

Learned you have learned from the lesson

What I Can These are tasks designed to

Do showcase your skills and knowledge
gained, and applied into real-life
concerns and situations.
Post This assessment evaluates your level
Assessment of mastery in achieving the learning
objectives.

More These are additional activities

Activities designed to increase the level of your
skills and knowledge.

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 What I Know

Direction: Encircle the letter of the correct answer.

1. Mang Andoy is going to put eggs in the tray consisting of 6 eggs and
12 eggs. What is the smallest number of eggs that Mang Andoy can put
using the tray?

a. 6 b. 12 c. 18 d. 24

2. Mrs. Lim has 56 cups and 64 glasses. If she will put them in trays of
cups and glasses with the same number, what is the biggest number of
cups or glasses that a tray will contain? What is asked in the problem?

a. number of glasses
b. number of cups
c. biggest number of cups or glasses that a tray will contain
d. smallest number of cups or glasses that a tray will contain

3. Isagani and Lucas went fishing. Isagani caught 21 fishes and Lucas
caught 28 fishes. What is the greatest number of fish each could catch
per hour, if they caught the same number of fish per hour? What
method will you use to solve the problem?

a. addition b. subtraction c. prime factorization d. divisibility

4. Sakura baked puto. She wants to pack them in boxes of 8 and 12

pieces. What is the smallest number of pieces of puto that she can pack
using the boxes?

a. 32 b. 24 c. 16 d. 8

5. A store owner donated 36 T-shirts and 24 short pants. If they will be

packed equally in plastic bags, what is the greatest number of bags
containing an equal number of T-shirts and short pants?

a. 12 b.24 c.36 d.48

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6. Mr. Brook has 2 pieces of wood for his dama board. One has a width
of 18 cm and the other has 20 cm. If both sizes of wood are to be cut
into dama chips of the same width without wasting any wood, what is the
greatest width into which the woods can be cut?

a. 1 b.2 c.3 d.4

7. The pupils of Valencia City Central School collected used bottles for
recycling. They arranged the bottles in boxes of 5 and 6. What is the
least number of bottles the pupils have collected?

a. 5 b. 6 c. 10 d.30

8. What is the LCM of 15 and 100?

a. 400 b. 300 c. 200 d. 100

9. What is the GCF of 14 and 21?

a. 7 b.8 c. 9 d. 10

10. A factory is to pack pencils in boxes of 8 and 10 pieces. What is the

smallest number of pencils that can be packed using the boxes? What is
asked in the problem?

a. number of pencils that can be packed using the boxes

b. number of factory that will packed the pencils
c. number of boxes needed to packed the pencil
d. number of boxes to be packed

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Lesson Solving Real-Life

1 Problems Involving
GCF and LCM
In this lesson, we are going to solve real-life problems involving
GCF or LCM of two given numbers.

What’s In

Can you give the GCF of 10 and 15?

What method can you use in finding the GCF?
Show your answer.
10 = 2x5
15 = 3x5
The GCF is 5

Give the LCM of 8 and 16

What method is the easiest for you?
What is your answer? Show your solution

2 8 16
2 4 8
2 2 4
2 1 2
1 1

The LCM is 2x2x2x2. That is 16.

Did you find it easy to answer?

How did you come up with your answer?
Can you tell the steps in finding the GCF? LCM?

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 What’s New

Hinata is an athlete. She swims every 6 days and runs every 4

days. If she does the two activities today, how many days will she do the
two activities again on the same day?

What is asked in the problem?

What are the facts?
How will you solve the problem?
What is your answer?

What is It?

In solving word problem, follow the following steps: Understand,

Plan, Solve, Check and Look back. You can choose any of the different
methods in solving the problem: Listing, Prime factorization or
Continuous Division.

Solution to the given problem following the steps.

Understand
1. What does the problem asked The number of days Hinata will
for? do the two activities again on the
same day
What facts are given? Swim every 6 days and run every
4 days
Plan
How will you solve the problem? By finding the LCM
Solve
How is the solution done By listing
6:6, 12, 18, 24, 32
4:4, 8, 12, 16, 24
LCM is 12

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 By Prime Factorization
6: 2x3
2: 2x2
LCM is 12

By Continuous Division
2 6 4
3 3 2
2 1 2
1 1
LCM is 12

Check and Look back It would take 12 days before

What is the answer to the Hinata could do the two activities
problem? again in the same day.

What’s More

Direction: Solve each of these problems following the steps. Show your
solution. You may use any of the methods you have learned in finding
the GCF or LCM.

1. I want to plant 45 Talong plants and 81 corn plants in my garden. If I

plant the same number of plants in each row and each row has only one
type of plant, what is the greatest number of plants I can plant in one
row?

Understand
1. What does the problem asked
for?
What facts are given?
Plan
How will you solve the problem?
Solve
How is the solution done?
Check and Look back
What is the answer to the
problem?

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2. The school canteen serves binignit every 6 th day and lugaw every 8 th
day. If binignit and lugaw are both serve today, how many days will it be
before they are both serve again in the same day?

Understand
1.What does the problem
require?
What facts are given?
Plan
How will you solve the problem?
Solve
How is the solution done
Check and Look back
What is the answer to the
problem?

What I Have Learned

There are different methods in finding the GCF and LCM of two
given numbers: Listing, Prime Factorization and Continuous Division. In
solving real – life problems. To solve problems involving GCF and LCM
of two given numbers, you are to follow the steps: Understand, Plan,
Solve and Check.

If the problem requires finding the greatest number to group, split

or divide equally, share and no excess or extra then use the GCF. On
the other hand, use LCM if the problem shows hints for a cycle,
repetition, smallest number or an event to happen again.

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 What I Can Do

Direction: Read and answer the problems following the steps.

1. A perimeter fence is being constructed with posts that measures 12cm

wide. A second fence is being constructed with posts that are 15cm
wide. If each fence is to be of the same length, what is the shortest
fence that can be constructed?

2. Ash is campaigning for class vice - president and plans to distribute

some campaign materials: 20 flyers and 16 buttons. He wants each
classroom to receive an identical set of campaign materials without
having left overs. What is the greatest number of classrooms Ash can
distribute the materials?

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 Post Assessment

A. Direction: Encircle the letter of the correct answer.

1. Gohan is making emergency- preparedness kits to share to his

friends. He has 12 can bottles of water and 16 cans of food, which she
would like to distribute equally among the kits, with nothing left over.
What is the greatest number of kits Gohan can make?

a. 1 b.2 c.3 d. 4

2. Sasuke goes hiking every 12 days and swimming every 6 days. He

did both kinds of exercise today. How many days from now will he go
both hiking and swimming again?

a. 6 b. 12 c. 18 d. 24

3. Luffy is packing equal numbers of mango slices and guava slices for
snacks. Luffy packs the mango slices in groups of 18 and the guava
slices in groups of 9. What is the smallest number of guava that he can
packed?

a. 9 b. 12 c.15 d. 18

4. A club has 16 girls and 8 boys as members. The president of the club
wants to break the club into groups, with each group containing the
same combination of girls and boys. The president also wants to make
sure that no one is left out. What is the greatest number of groups the
president can make?

a. 7 b.8 c. 9 d. 10

5. The parents are making hotcakes with fillings for the class feeding
program. They have 72 cheese slices and 48 servings of peanut butter.
What is the greatest number of hotcakes can they make if each hotcakes
has the same filling?

a.24 b. 26 c.28 d. 30

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6. Fabric is sold in stores from bolts that are 45 or 60 inches wide.
What is the width of the widest strips of fabric you can cut from either
bolt without wasting any of the fabric if each strip has the same width?
What are you trying to find?

a. GCF b. LCM c. multiple d. factors

7. Nami is making flower arrangement. He has 7 roses and 14 daisies. If

Nami wants to make all the arrangements identical and have no flowers
left over, what is the greatest number of flower arrangements that he can
make? What is does the problem asked for?

a. number of flowers b. number of roses

c. number of daisies d. number of flower arrangements

8. Sanji has swimming lessons every fifth day and diving lessons every
third day. If he had a swimming lesson and a diving lesson on May 5,
when will be the next date on which he has both swimming and diving
lesson? What are the given facts?

a. swimming every 5th day and diving every 3rd day

b. swimming every 3rd day and diving every 5th day
c. His last training is on May 5
d. everyday is his swmming anad diving lesson

9. What is the largest number of pechay and cabbage plants that can be
planted in rows of equal number if there are 60 pechay and 80 cabbage
plants?

a. 10 b. 20 c. 30 d. 40

10. What is the smallest number of avocados that can be placed in

baskets with 50 and 75 pieces?

a. 150 b. 140 c. 130 d. 120

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 Additional Activities

Direction: Read each paragraph carefully and answer the questions.

1. Two friends entered a race around a track. Zoro takes 6 minutes to

run one lap and Chopper takes 3 minutes to run one lap. If the two
friends begin the race at the same time, how many minutes will it take
them to be at the starting point again?

2. Usopp has 16 blue marbles and 8 white ones. If he wants to place

them in identical groups without any marbles left over, what is the
greatest number of groups Usopp can make?

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 Answer Key

What I Know
1. a
2. c
3. c
4. b
5. a
6. b
7. d
8. b
9.a
10. a

What’s in
A
GCF = 5
B
LCM = 16

What’s More A
1. greatest number of plants I can put in 1
row
2.45 talong plants; 81 corn plants
3. use any of the 3 methods disscussed
4. GCF = 9
5. 9 plants in a row

What’s More B
1. number of days when binignit and lugaw
is both serve again
2. every 6th day binignit is served; every 8th
day lugaw is served
3. use any of the 3 methods discussed
4. LCM = 24
5. 9 days before binignit and lugaw are both
served

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 Post Test
1. d
2. b
3. d
4. b
5. a
6. a
7. d
8. a
9.b
10. a

Additional Activities
1. 6 minutes
2. 8 groups

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Reference:

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Borias., R. Buemia., M. Callao., L. Morandante., A. Danao., l. Gonzaga.,
I. Briones. And J. A. Daganta. (2015) Mathematics –Grade
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2. Tabilang, A R., I. J. Arce., R. Pascua., N. Cahayag., L. Dacuba., D.

Borias., R. Buemia., M. Callao., L. Morandante., A. Danao., l. Gonzaga.,
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