Zayed is helping his classmates get ready for their math test by making them identical packages of pencils and calculators. He has 727272 pencils and 242424 calculators and he must use all of the pencils and calculators. If Zayed creates the greatest number of identical packages possible, how many pencils will be in each package?
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