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Owen's Bakery sells muffins in packages of 5 and cookies in packages of 16. Going through yesterday's receipts, a store manager notices that the bakery sold the same number of muffins and cookies yesterday afternoon. What is the smallest number of muffins that the bakery could have sold?

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Owen's Bakery sells muffins in packages of 5 and cookies in packages of 16. Going through yesterday's receipts, a store manager notices that the bakery sold the same number of muffins and cookies yesterday afternoon. What is the smallest number of muffins that the bakery could have sold?

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Solution

To find the smallest number of muffins that the bakery could have sold, we need to find the least common multiple (LCM) of the numbers 5 and 16, because the bakery sells muffins in packages of 5 and cookies in packages of 16.

Step 1: List the multiples of each number until we find a common multiple.

Multiples of 5: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80...

Multiples of 16: 16, 32, 48, 64, 80...

Step 2: Identify the least common multiple.

The least common multiple of 5 and 16 is 80.

So, the smallest number of muffins that the bakery could have sold is 80.

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