kiara4 kiara4
  • 12-08-2015
  • Mathematics
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explain why the greatest common factor of two numbers is sometimes 1

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arunt arunt
  • 12-08-2015
So if you have the numbers 6 and 5
Factors of 5 : 1 , 5
Factors of 6 : 1 ,2 , 3 , 6
The only number that you see repeated in both of the factors is 1, so the greatest COMMON factor is 1. 
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vanessalove vanessalove
  • 13-08-2015
some numbers are prime and don't have any other factors only one and itself
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