LCM AND HCF

01 (Practice sheet)

1. Find the H.C.F of 4, 5, 6, 8 ?

(a) 0 (b) 1 (c) 2 (d) 3
2. Find the H.C.F of 12, 15, 18 and 27 ?
(a) 1 (b) 0 (c) 2 (d) 3
3. What is the gr eatest number that wil l divi de 307 and 330 leaving rem ai nder 3 and 7
respectively?
307 330 3 7
(a) 19 (b) 16 (c) 17 (d) 23
(SSC CGL Tier-I 2005)
4. Which greatest number will divide 3026 and 5053 leaving remainders 11 and 13 respectively?
3026 5053 11 13
(a) 19 (b) 30 (c) 17 (d) 45
(SSC CPO SI 2006)

5. Three sets of English, Mathematics and Science books containing 336, 240, 96 books respectively have
to be stacked in such a way that all the books are stored subject-wise and the height of each stack is the
same. Total number of stacks will be:
336, 240 96

(a) 14 (b) 21 (c) 22 (d) 48

((SSC CGL Tier-I 2007)
6. A farmer has 945 cows and 2475 sheep. He farms them into flocks, keeping cows and sheep separate and
having the same number of animals in each flock. If these flocks are as large as possible, then the
maximum number of animals in each flock and total number of flocks required for the purpose are respec-
tively
945 2475

(a) 15 and 228 (b) 9 and 380 (c) 45 and 76 (d) 46 and 75
(SSC CHSL DEO & LDC 2011)
7. What is the greatest number which will divide 110 and 128 leaving a remainder 2 in each case?
110 128 2
(a) 8 (b) 18 (c) 28 (d) 38
(SSC FCI Assistant Grade III 2012)

2 4 6
8. Find the HCF of , and
3 5 7

2 4 6
,
3 5 7

1
 48 2 1 24
(a) (b) (c) (d)
105 105 105 105
(SSC CGL Tier-II 2012)
9. Three tankers contain 403 litres, 434 litres, 465 litres of diesel respectively. Then the maximum capac-
ity of a container that can measure the diesel of the three containers exact number of times is
403 434 465

(a) 31 litres (b) 62 litres (c) 41 litres (d) 84 litres

(CAPFs 2014)
10. Find the greatest number that will divide 390, 495 and 300 without leaving a remainder.
390, 495 300
(a) 5 (b) 15 (c) 25 (d) 35
(SSC CGL Tier-I 2016)
11. The product of two 2-digit numbers is 2160 and their H.C.F. is 12. The numbers are
2160 12
(a) (12 ,60) (b) (72,30) (c) (36, 60) (d) (60,72)
(SSC CGL Tier-I 2016)

12. In a school, 391 boys and 323 girls have been divided into the largest possible equal classes, so that each
class of boys numbers the same as each class of girls, What is the number of classes?
391 323

(a) 23 (b) 19 (c) 44 (d) 17

(SSC CGL Tier-I 2016)