Learning Target: I can represent numbers as products of prime factors and find the GCF

for any pair of numbers.

Warm Up: Define the following with your seat-mate

Factor Product

Prime Number Prime Factorization

Greatest Common Factor (GCF)

Today, we are going to focus on finding the prime factorization and GCF of sets of numbers.

Example 1: Writing the prime factorization of a given number

Write the prime factorization of 3300. Your Turn 1: Write the prime factorization of 2500.

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Okay, what about greatest common factors?

To find the greatest common factor (GCF) of two or more numbers, you take all
common prime factors between them.

Example 2: Finding the GCF of 2 numbers

Find the GCF of 138 and 198.

Your Turn 2: Find the GCF of 126 and 144.

Example 3: Finding the GCF of 2 terms

Find the GCF of 28𝑥 and 42𝑥𝑦

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