for this week’s blog post I decided to chose how to find the greatest common factor, of two numbers
for our example, we will be using 60 and 24 for our numbers
our first step is to use prime factorization to find out our prime numbers
60 has the prime factors of 2², 3, 5
24 has the prime factors of 2³, 3
next step is to single out what prime factors these two numbers share in common with each other.
the answer is 2² and 3
the next step is to use multiplication to multiply these two numbers to give us our answer of what the GCM is for these two numbers
answer is 12 as 2x2x3 is 12
I chose this concept for my blog post because I realized I haven’t completed a blog post on this concept, and finding the GCM is one of my favorite things that our class has done so far.