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When is it useful to find the least common multiple and greatest common factor of two or more numbers to solve a problem?
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When you are simplifying fractions or adding and subtracting unlike fractions.
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What is the greatest common multiple of two prime numbers?
The greatest common multiple is an infinite amount and not very practical for problem solving. The least common multiple of two prime numbers is their product.
What is the greatest common multiple of 36 and 18?
The GREATEST common multiple is a number approaching infinity. The LEAST common multiple is 540.
What is the greatest common multiple of 3 and 5?
There is no greatest common multiples for whatever common multiple is claimed to be the greatest the lowest common multiple of the numbers (in this case 15) can be added to get an even greater common multiple.
What is the greatest common multiple of 24 and 36?
The greatest common multiple of any set of numbers is infinite and not very practical for problem solving. The lowest common multiple is 72
Can two even numbers have a greatest common multiple of 1?
The greatest common multiple of any set of numbers is infinite. The greatest common multiple of any set of numbers will never be one.
Can you find the greatest common multiple of two numbers?
The greatest common multiple of any two numbers is infinite.
How do you know whether to use the greatest common factor or the least common multiple to solve a problem?
the least common multiple is what the numbers you are using divide into. e.g. 3 and 6 have 12 as the common factor. the greatest common factor is what divides into your numbers. 6 and 9 have 3 as the greatest common factor
When is the product of two numbers divided by the greatest common multiple the least common multiple?
Never. The greatest common multiple of any two numbers is infinite.
What is the greatest common multiple of 1215and18?
There is no greatest common multiple of these numbers... or indeed of any pair of numbers. Once you get a common multiple, you can multiply that by any integer, as large as you want, to get a larger common multiple.
What strategies can be used to find the greatest common multiple of two numbers?
The greatest common multiple of any two numbers is infinite.
What is the greatest common multiple of 72 and 120?
The greatest common multiple is an infinite amount and not very practical for problem solving.
What is the greatest common multiple of 60 and 84?
There is really no such thing as a "greatest common multiple" (and certainly not "greatest common multiply"). Once you find the least common multiple of a set of numbers, you can keep adding the LCM to itself over and over again. Each new number you get will be a common multiple of your set of numbers, but each new number will always be larger than the previous. This means that you can keep adding while the number approaches infinity and you will still never find a greatest multiple.
