The highest common factor (HCF) is found by identifying all common factors of two numbers and selecting the largest one. For example, 8 and 12 have common factors of 1, 2 and 4. The highest common ...
Sometimes you are given numbers expressed as a product of prime factors. For example, 8 = 2 3 and 90 = 2 × 3 2 × 5. If you want to find the LCM and HCF in an exam, we can use prime factor form to ...