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What is the greatest common factor of 862 and 32b?

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We need to find the greatest common factor for these two expressions, So we need to start by reducing the numerical factors to their prime factor form:

862 = 2 x 431

32 = 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2

then, the Greatest Common Factor is : "2" (the only factor that appears

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