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What is the difference between a multiple of a number and a factor of a number?
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A multiple is a result of multiplying one factor by another: 2 x 3 = 6 3 x 3 = 9 4 x 3 = 12 6, 9, and 12 are all multiples of 3 3 and 2 are factors of 6 3 and 3 are factors of 9 4 and 3 are factors of 12
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What is the difference a multiple of a number and a factor of a number?
A factor is what goes into a number, a multiple is what a number goes into. 3 is a factor of 9 27 is a multiple of 9.
What is the difference between listing the factors of a number and lising the multiples of a number?
The factor list will be finite, the multiple list will be infinite.
What is difference between multiple and factor?
A multiple is found by multiplying the number. Whereas a factor is what the number can be divided by. For example - multiples of 10 are; 10, 20, 30, 40, ... Factors of 10 are; 1, 2, 5, 10
What is the relationship between a factor and a multiple?
A factor of any number is a multiple of that number as for example 3 is a factor of 24 and it is also a multiple of 3 because 3*8 = 24
What is the difrence between a factor and a multiple?
They have a converse relationship. A factor is a number that divides into another, with no remainders. A multiple is something that can be multiplied by another number, to reach the original number that you had. Thus: Original number / a factor = a multiple Multiple * (the correct factor) = original number. "the correct factor", because most number have more than one factor. But only one factor * multiple will give the original number.
What is the difference between a factor a multiple?
a factor is any number that can "go" into a number evenly. a multiple is the original number times a number take 12 for example factors are 6,2 4,3 12,1 multiples are 24 36 48 so on and so forth hope that helped
What is the difference between a number that is a cube and a number that is a cube root?
It's the same as the difference between a factor and a multiple. 3 x 3 x 3 = 27 27 is the cube of 3. 3 is the cube root of 27.
What's the difference between a greatest common factor and a least common multiple?
Difference Between GCF and LCM. The Greatest Common Factor (or the GCF) is the greatest real number shared between two integers. ... On the other hand, the Lowest Common Multiple (or LCM) is the integer shared by two numbers that can be divided by both numbers
What number between 61 and 107 is a multiple of 41020?
No number between 61 and 107 is a multiple of 41020. A multiple is a number that another number can divide into. The lowest multiple of any number is itself. You may have meant factors, which is a number that divides into a multiple of itself. In that case there is a factor of 41020 between 61 and 107. That number is 70.
If a number is a factor of another number can it be a multiple also of the same number?
No. A number cannot be both a factor and a multiple of another number. A number can be multiple and factor of itself, but nothing else.
What number is prime and between 40 and 50 and a multiple of 86?
No multiple of 86 is in that range. 43 is a prime number that is a factor of 86.
What number is both a factor and multiple of 12?
Which of the following is a composite number between 57,47,17,2
