The answer depends on whether or not a is a factor of c.
There is not a greatest common factor of a single number, such as 121, 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. Thus, since there are not two or more numbers to compare, there are neither common factors nor a greatest common factor.The factors of 121 are 1, 11, and 121.The only prime factor of 121 is 11.Examples:The greatest common factor of 11 and 63 is 1.The greatest common factor of 11 and 154 is 11.The greatest common factor of 11, 99, and 253 is 11.
There is not a greatest common factor of a single number, such as 57, 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 57 are 1, 3, 19, and 57.The prime factors of 57 are 3 and 19.Examples:The greatest common factor of 27 and 57 is 3.The greatest common factor of 57 and 133 is 19.The greatest common factor of 57 and 106 is 1. factors are 3 and 19GCF of 57 is 57.* * * * *That is not true. You cannot have a GCF of just one number. The C of GCF stands for COMMON - that is, common to two or more numbers. So the GCF is defined only for 2 or more numbers.
The least common multiple (LCM) of two numbers is the smallest number that is a multiple of both numbers. In this case, the LCM of ab and bc would be the product of the two numbers divided by their greatest common divisor (GCD), which is b. Therefore, the LCM of ab and bc is abc.
8 and 16, among others.8 and 16 have a GCF of 8.8 and 16 have a GCF of 8. So do many other pairs.8 and 16, among others.16 and 248 and 16.8 and 16, among many others.
The greatest factors of A, B, and C, respectively, are the absolute values of A, B, and C. The greatest common factor of A, B, and C is 1.
The GCF is 1.
The answer depends on whether or not a is a factor of c.
If the greatest common factor/divisor of A and B is 1 then they are coprime - they do not share any prime factors. Multiplying both through by C means, obviously, that each number now divides by C. In fact, C is their greatest common divisor, since AC and BC do not have further common factors after C is taken out. Hence the GCF of AC and BC is not merely a factor of C - it is C. (The question makes sense only if A, B and C are integers.)
the only common factor is 1 b/c 11 is a prime number.
Variables can have any value. That's an infinite number of factors.
Well, think about what it means for something (say a number c) to be the greatest common factor of 2 numbers (say a and b *non-zero*).It means that c is the largest integer such that a and b are both divisible by c.If c > a, then how can a be divisible by c?If c > b, then how can b be divisible by c?Therefore c < a & bAs for 16 and 42:16 = 2 x 2 x 2 x 242 = 2 x 3 x 7The only shared (or common) prime factor is 2. Therefore the GCF is 2.Other answer:No, GCF(16,42) can't be greater than 16.GCF of two numbers a and b(where a>b) is always smaller than or equal to a.But why it can't be greater than a?GCF means greatest common factor, the greatest factor of a is a, and there can be many common factors of a and b. But a(factor of a) is the largest among all the common factors, so GCF can't be greater than a. Prime factorization of 16 = 2x2x2x2Prime factorization of 42 = 2x3x7What is common in the factorization of 16 and 42? Only 2 is common so GCF is 2.
I assume numerator and denominator will be in two different variables, Just divide both of them by the greatest common factor.Here is a method to calculate the greatest common factor; it is based on the fact that, for example, the greatest common factor of 14 and 10 is the same as the greatest common factor of 10 and 4, where 4 is calculated as 14 - 10 (or faster, to avoid repeated subtractions, 14 % 10).public static void main(String[] args) {System.out.println(gcf(300L, 200L));}static long gcf(long a, long b){long c;while (true){c = a % b;if (c == 0) break;a = b;b = c;}return b;}
GREATEST common factor
Suppose you have a fraction in the form a/b and suppose c is a common factor of a and b.c is a factor of a so that a = c*xc is a factor of b so that b = c*ywhere x and y are integers.And so a/b = cx/cy = x/y.The process is as follows:find a common factor, c, of the numerator (a) and the denominator (b).the new numerator is the old numerator divided by the common factor that is, x = a/c;the new denominator is the old denominator divided by the common factor that is, y = b/c;the new fraction is x/y.
Since C can be any number, the answer can be any factor of 60.
That depends on the value of C.