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a and b have no common prime factors. Their LCM is their product.
You can find the GCF and/or the LCM of a set of numbers by comparing the prime factorizations of the individual members of the set.
72
The LCM of 60 and 18 is 180
1, 111, 19The GCF is 1.
The LCM of the given three numbers using prime factorization is 25200
Writing the numbers down. If you've already done that, then find their prime factorizations.
5 x 7 = 35 2 x 5 x 5 = 50 2 x 5 x 5 x 7 = 350, the LCM
The LCM is 56 which is 28 x2.If we write the prime factorizations of the two numbers we have:28=22 x78=23Now to find the LCM we multiply 23 x71 =56.56.
If the prime factorizations have no factors in common, the LCM is the product of them.
speed you can just use your brain to find the LCM faster, sometimes.
If the first step is writing down the numbers, the second step is finding their prime factorizations.