Keesha baked 4 dozen oatmeal cookies and 30 chocolate chip cookies. She wants to divide the cookies into plastic containers with the same amount of cookies in each container. If she wants the container to hold the greatest number of cookies possible, how many containers does she need and how many of each cookie will be in each container?
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