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Why is the GCF of two numbers sometimes one
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Why is the GCF of two numbers sometimes one

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When you have two primes, the gcf is 1. This is because a prime's onlyfactors are 1 and itself. Obviously two different primes cannot have a gcf of itself, so the gcf must be 1.
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