Gerald is putting mints into a bag for party favors. He has 36 blue mints and 42 red mints. Each bag will have either red mintsor blue mints. All the bags have the same number of mints? What is the greatest numbers of mints Gerald can put in each bag?

Ian is in training for a national hot dog eating contest on the 4th of july. on his first day of training, he eats 4 hot dogs. each day, he plans to eat 110% of the number of hot dogs he ate the previous day. write an explicit formula that could be used to find the number of hot dogs ian will eat on any particular day.