What is the lowest common multiple of 104 and 676?

Answer 1

To find the lowest common multiple you first need to break each number down into their prime factors:

104 = 2x2x2x13

676 = 2x2x13x13

The next step is to identify any common factors. In this case, the numbers have two 2s in common, so we can discard to of these. They also have one 13 in common, so we can discard one of these. That leaves us with 2,2,2,13 and 13.

Multiply these together to calculate the LCM:

2x2x2x13x13 = 1,352

Thus the lowest common multiple of 104 and 676 is 1,352.