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What is the lcm of 6and15

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Answer: 30

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Step-by-step explanation:

Method 1)

The short way to find this answer is to multiply the values together to get 6*15 = 90, then divide by the GCF 3 getting 90/3 = 30 as the LCM.

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Method 2)

The longer way is to list the prime factorizations of each value

6 = 2*3

15 = 3*5

The unique factors are: 2, 3, 5

The most that each unique factor happens is one time.

Those unique factors multiply out to 2*3*5 = 30

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Method 3)

Another way is to list out the multiples of 6 and 15

multiples of 6 = {6, 12, 18, 24, 30, 36, 42, 48, ...}

multiples of 15 = {15, 30, 45, 60, 75, 90, 105, ...}

We see that 30 is the smallest value in both sets, so 30 is the LCM.

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