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I have no clue. But most things in maths are not used in every day life, but math helps with problem solving and how you approach things. I don't know if the highest common factor is used in daily life, but I know I have never needed it! ;D Hope this helped

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its used to show when two things do the same type of activity at once for example if clock a rings every 10minutes ,clock b every 12 minutes and clock c every 24 minutes then they will all ring together after 120 minutes

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Let's say you ran a plant that used special screws to hold a motor together. The screws come in packages of 8, and the motors come in packages of 10. You don't want a lot of extra screws around, because they are very expensive. So you wonder- at what point do the screws and motors match up in packages of 8 and 10? That way you can order them in even amounts. The answer is 40, because 5 x 8 and 4 x 10 both = 40.

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They cannot because there is really no such thing as a "greatest common multiple". 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.

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The greatest common multiple of any set of integers is infinite and while there is always room for infinity, it's not very practical on a day-to-day basis.

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For simplifying fractions to their lowest terms

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The greatest common multiple of any set of integers is infinite. If more people sat down and really contemplated infinity, there might be fewer real world problems.

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Never, since there is no such thing as a greatest common multiple.

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To add or subtract fractions.

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