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A large gear will be used to turn a smaller gear. The large gear will make 300 revolutions per minute. The smaller gear must make 1536 revolutions per minute. How many teeth could each gear have? Give three different possibilities, and find the smallest number of teeth each gear could have. Explain your reasoning.
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