What is the greatest common factor of 36?

Answer 1

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.

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.

Examples:

The greatest common factor of 27 and 36 is 9.

The greatest common factor of 36 and 44 is 4.

The greatest common factor of 12, 36, and 78 is 6.
You need at least two numbers to find a GCF.

Answer 2

It is not possible to give a sensible answer to this question. The greatest common factor (GCF) refers to a factor that is COMMON to two or more numbers. You have only one number in the question!

Answer 3

"Common" means "same for both". There's nothing common about one single

number. You need two or more to find things that are common about them.

Answer 4

It is not possible to give a sensible answer to this question. The greatest common factor refers to a factor that is COMMON to two or more numbers. You have only one number in the question!