The factors of 36 are:
1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 12, 18, 36
The factors of 60 are:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, 60
There cannot be a greatest common factor if there are not at least two numbers to compare. The greatest common factor is the largest factor that all the numbers have in common - the largest factor that they all share.
The largest common factor of two or more numbers is determined by the largest number that will "go into" the two or more numbers. For example, the largest common factor of 36 and 24 is 12, because 12 is the largest number that both are divisible by.
The least common factor of any set of numbers is 1 .
36 is the largest factor of 36,
6 is a factor of 36 but a common factor is only applicable to two or more numbers.
Because 24 doesn't go into 36 evenly The "GCF" of two numbers is a factor of both numbers. 24 is not a factor of 36.
Because 24 doesn't go into 36 evenly The "GCF" of two numbers is a factor of both numbers. 24 is not a factor of 36.
There is not a greatest common factor of a single number, such as 36, because there cannot be a greatest common factor without two or more numbers to compare. Common factors are factors that the numbers being compared have in common. The greatest common factor is the largest factor that all the numbers being compared have in common. 24 could not be the GCF of 36 and another number because 24 is not a factor of 36. The factors of 36 are 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 12, 18, and 36. The prime factors of 36 are 2, 2, 3, and 3.
36 and 72, among others.
Here are some numbers that have 36 as their greatest common factor: 36 and 72 72 and 252 108 and 180 324 and 360
Those two numbers could be 18 and 36.
There cannot be a greatest common factor of just one number. To be common there need to be at least two numbers. If you find all the factors of two or more numbers, and you find some factors are the same ("common"), then the largest of those common factors is the Greatest Common Factor.