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Three sets of English, Hindi and Mathematics books have to be stacked in such a way that all the books are stored topic wise and the height of each stack is the same. The number of English books is 96, the number of Hindi books is 240 and the number of Mathematics books is 336. Assuming that the books are of the same thickness, determine the number of stacks of English, Hindi and Mathematics books.

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In order to arrange the books as required, we have to find the largest number that divides `96,240,336` exactly. Clearly, such a number is their HCF computation of HCF of `96` and `240`
Clearly, HCF of `96` and `240` is `48`
computation of HCF of `48` and `336` is `48`
Hence, there must be `48` books in each stack
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