MATH 6T

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PRACTICE 30’
HIGHEST COMMON FACTOR
I. Knowledge review
1. List all prime numbers between 10 and 40.
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2. Use factor tree to write these numbers as the product of prime numbers.

a) 56 b) 90

c) 124 d) 162

3. Find the HCF of

a) 24 and 60 b) 30 and 45
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c) 44 and 66 d) 56 and 72
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II. Solve problems

Exercise 1. Two strings are 70 m and 28 m long. The strings are to be cut into pieces of
equal length. Find the maximum length of each piece.
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Exercise 2.
Ms Sanchez has 50 books and 70 tubes of paint to give to the students in her art group.
What is the largest number of students she can have if she gives each student an equal
number of books and an equal number of tubes of paint?
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Exercise 3. Max has 24 red balls and Alice has 36 green balls. They want to arrange
the balls in such a way that each row contains equal number of balls and also each
row should have only red candies or green candies.
What is the greatest number of candies that can be arranged in each row?
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