What is the LCM of 6 and 8?

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Shwetank Mauria
Feb 24, 2017

LCM is #24#.

Explanation:

Prime factors of #6# are #2xx3#

and those of #8# are #2xx2xx2#

Now for LCM just pick up all the prime numbers and they should be repeated the maximum number of times they appear as a factor of any single number.

Here in factors of #8#, #2# appears thrice and #3# has appeared just once,

hence, LCM is #2xx2xx2xx3=24#.

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