Enter GCF or LCM numbers:
Determine GCF(6,20)
GCF = Largest factor that divides numbers
Determine the factors for 6
1,2,3,6
Determine the factors for 20
1,2,4,5
List the common factors
1,2
GCF(6,20) = 2
GCF(6,20) = 2
Evaluate GCF
Since GCF ≠ 1, they are not relatively prime (co-prime)
Since GCF ≠ 1 and have a difference of two, the numbers are not twin prime
Calculate LCM for the following
(6,20)
List the first few multiples for 6
6,12,18,24,30,36,42,48,54,60,66,72,78
List the first few multiples for 20
20,40,60,80,100,120
LCM is the smallest common number:
LCM(6,20) is 60
LCM(6,20) is 60
Common Core State Standards In This Lesson
How does the Greatest Common Factor and Least Common Multiple Calculator work?
Free Greatest Common Factor and Least Common Multiple Calculator - Given 2 or 3 numbers, the calculator determines the following:
* Greatest Common Factor (GCF) using Factor Pairs
* Rewrite Sum using the Distributive Property and factoring out the GCF
* Least Common Multiple (LCM) / Least Common Denominator (LCD) using Factor Pairs
* GCF using the method of Successive Division
* GCF using the Prime Factorization method
* Determine if the numbers are coprime and twin prime
This calculator has 3 inputs.
What 11 concepts are covered in the Greatest Common Factor and Least Common Multiple Calculator?
- division
- separate a number into parts
- division
- separate a number into parts
- factor
- a divisor of an integer n, also called a factor of n, is an integer m that may be multiplied by some integer to produce n.
- greatest common factor
- largest positive integer dividing a set of integers
- greatest common factor and least common multiple
- least common multiple
- Given 2 numbers a and b, the least common multiple LCM is the smallest positive integer that is divisible by both. It is commonly denoted as LCM(a, b)
- minimum
- the least or lowest amount possible or attained
- multiple
- the product of any quantity and an integer
- number
- an arithmetical value, expressed by a word, symbol, or figure, representing a particular quantity and used in counting and making calculations and for showing order in a series or for identification. A quantity or amount.
- prime factorization
- the prime numbers that divide that integer exactly
- remainder
- The portion of a division operation leftover after dividing two integers