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Warm Up

Find the greatest common factor (GCF) of the following numbers:

a) 4, 5 b) 6, 30 c) 21, 63

Solve
20×25 12×18 27×36
a) b) c)
5 6 9

Greatest Common Factor and Least Common Multiple

Notation: For two numbers a and b, we will use GCF(a, b) for greatest common factor of a
and b and LCM(a, b) for the least common multiple of a and b.

Vocabulary:
Prime Number A number that only has __ and ________ as factors
Coprime Numbers A pair of numbers, a and b, are coprime if GCF(a, b) = ___

Least Common Multiple:

Find LCM(18, 30):

There is a shortcut to finding the LCM:

×
LCM(a , b)=

If a and b are coprime (GCF(a, b) = 1), then the formula becomes: LCM(a ,b)=a×b
Practice:
a) LCM(4, 5) b) LCM(6, 9)

c) LCM(15, 20) d) LCM(35, 56)