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True or False: The highest common factor of a group of natural numbers is the largest natural number that is a factor of all the numbers in a group.

Anybody know thanks

sry for late rply thnx i got it

we got this math project called 'Numbers with a fixed number of factors.' we need to know a number that has exactly 11 factors!! we keep trying, but we think maybe this might be a trick question and there is no number with exactly 11 factors. Please help!

we tryed squares
squares of primes didnt give enough
we finally found 1024:

1&1024, 2&512, 4&256, 8&128, 16&64, 32&32

farmer has a total of 21 cows and chickens.togteher the animals have a total of 54 legs.how many cows and how many chickens does the farmer have?

i got 15 chickens & 6 cows.how do u do the math 2 get the ans?

i am stuck the question is, Find a quick, easy method to compute the first 100 number, from 1 to 100. I can`t use a calculator as a metod for this problem

plus them all together

50x101=5050
thnx

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