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What is the greatest common factor of 48 and 72? Explain.

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The second step is to analyze which are the common divisors. It is not difficult to see that the 'Greatest Common Factor' or 'Divisor' for 48 and 72 is 24. The GCF is the largest common positive integer that divides all the numbers (48,72) without a remainder. The GCF is also known as: Greatest common divisor (gcd); Highest common factor (hcf ...

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Answer:

24

Explanation:

factors of 48 : 1,2,3,4,6,8,12,16,24,48

factors of 72: 1,2,3,4,6,8,9,12,18,24,36,72

the biggest number that both have in common is 24

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