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You are making cookies for a party. You are not sure whether you will have 12 friends or 20 friends show up at the party, and you want each person to have the same number of cookies. What is the least number of cookies you must make in order to share equally with either 12 friends, or with 20 friends.

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You can say 4? Because the greatest common factor of 12 and 20 is 4
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