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By coincidence, Luther's Obedience School trained the same number of dogs and cats last week. The school teaches dogs in groups of 1010 and cats in groups of 55. What is the smallest number of cats the school could have had?\newline_________\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ cats

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Q. By coincidence, Luther's Obedience School trained the same number of dogs and cats last week. The school teaches dogs in groups of 1010 and cats in groups of 55. What is the smallest number of cats the school could have had?\newline_________\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ cats
  1. Find LCM: Determine the Least Common Multiple (LCM) of the group sizes for dogs and cats to find the smallest number of each that could be equally divided into groups. Dogs are taught in groups of 1010 and cats in groups of 55.
  2. Calculate Cats: Since the LCM of the group sizes is 1010, and each group of cats contains 55 cats, the smallest number of cats that could be taught is twice the number of groups, as each group contains 55 cats.

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