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Explain why the greatest common factor of two numbers is sometimes 1.

User Ratnanil
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A prime number and any other number that is not a multiple of it have a greatest common factor of
like 2 and 3
User Rahul Kulhari
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because with some numbers such as 13 they cant be divided down into a smaller number. like 14 has 2*7 and 1*14
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