Ah, the Lowest Common Factor of 16 and 24. Let's think about this like painting a happy little tree. First, we look at the factors of each number: 16 is 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 and 24 is 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 24. The lowest common factor they share is 8, like a little squirrel hiding in the branches of our tree.
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Since the CFs of neither match, you have to multiply the two numbers together. The answer you get is the LCF. You do the math.
The LCF is: 1
The LCF of 48 and 1,000 is 8.
The LCF of any set of numbers is 1.
LCF? lowest common factor? Don't you mean highest common factor? The lcf usually has no meaning: it is 1