Question

The Least Common Multiple of two numbers is 60, and one of the numbers is 7 less than the other number. What are the numbers? Justify your answer.

Answer 1

To do this we need to look at the factors of 60, this is:
60 and 1
30 and 2
20 and 3
15 and 4
12 and 5
10 and 6
We now need to look for two that have a difference of 7, this is 12 and 5