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What is greatest common denominator of 72 and 159)​

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Answer:

3

Explanation:

The greatest common divisor (GCD) of two nonzero integers a and b is the greatest positive integer d such that d is a divisor of both a and b (Wikipedia)

To find out which is the GCD of 72 and 159, keep factoring both until they cannot be factored any more

Then take the factors common to both list of factors; the greatest among them is the GCD

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

The factors of 159 are: 1, 3, 53, 159

The common factors are 1, 3

So GCD is 3

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