It is the hope of math educators that you will be as conversant with numbers as you are with words. If you think of factors as letters, numbers as words and multiples as phrases, the better you are able to manipulate them, the more sense you will make and the more sense you will be able to make of the world.
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It can be either or both. 36 is a factor of 72. 36 is a multiple of 9. 36 is both a factor and a multiple of 36.
8 is not a factor or multiple of 3.
36 is both a multiple and a factor of 36.
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Yes 18 times 2 equals 36 It is a factor, not a [proper] multiple.