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T/F: HCF is largest natural number that is factor of all

Postby babyZ on Thu Mar 12, 2009 5:28 pm

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.

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Postby stapel_eliz on Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:05 pm

What do you know about the Highest (or "Greatest") Common Factor? What definition did your book give you? What method(s) do you have for finding the HCF? What did you find when you picked various sets of numbers and found their HCF?

Thank you! :D
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Re: T/F: HCF is largest natural number that is factor of all

Postby babyZ on Sat Mar 21, 2009 5:29 pm

sry for late rply thnx i got it
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