You would never be asked to find the least common factor of a pair of numbers because factors are the numbers that can be multiplied together to get a specific number, and the least common factor of any pair of numbers is always 1. This is because 1 is a factor of every number and is the smallest positive integer. Therefore, finding the least common factor of a pair of numbers would always result in 1, making it unnecessary to calculate.
All numbers have common multiples.
Even numbers.
Yes, a pair of numbers can have fewer than two common factors. This only happens when the numbers are co-prime -- that is, when the numbers have only one common factor. In that case, the common factor is always 1.
20 and 40 have 4 and 5 as common factors.
No.
Only if the magnitudes of two numbers are the same.
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Okay. Give us a pair of numbers.
The least common factor of any set of numbers is 1.
The common factor is 1.