How do you find the greatest common factor of 12 and 60?
1 Answer
The greatest common factor of
Explanation:
What is the greatest common factor (GCF)?
That is the largest number that will divide into all those given.
To find it, the smallest prime numbers should be divided into each one. Prime numbers are: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19.
Notice that
So, if we divide
Then,