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Thank you We sneak l c m and g c

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f allah shmoop What are these Mysterious acronyms Top secret

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government organizations A new form of text speak or perhaps

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a misplaced scrabble tiles Actually they're abbreviations for mathematical concepts

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Well l c m is an acronym for least common

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Multiple let's Take a look at that one first Not

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so close Let's Back it up a bit boys Keep

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he beep There there There we go Uh first we

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need to talk about what a multiple is save Got

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the number six multiple is any number that can result

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from multiplying are given number by any other number For

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example you gonna multiply six by one to get six

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by to get twelve Buy three to get eighteen by

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four to get twenty four and so on Six twelve

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eighteen and twenty four are all multiples of six If

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you want to find the multiples of eight you can

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multiply eight by one to get ate by two to

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get sixteen and buy three to get twenty four We

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could keep going but we can see you're in a

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hurry if you want to find the least common multiple

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Of six and a you need to find the smallest

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number that shares both numbers as factors as you can

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see it's unfortunately not as easy as merely multiplying the

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numbers together G c f or greatest common factor is

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basically the reverse When looking for a g c f

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you need to find the largest number that will divide

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evenly into two other Numbers take the numbers 36 and

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forty eight okay wiseguy put him back suppose you're given

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the number of thirty six and forty eight what factors

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that they have in common Well both Numbers are even

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so 2 works three is also a factor as our

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foreign six but the greatest common factor the granddaddy of

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them all is twelve shmoop a good way to find

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the gcs is to first use prime factory ization thirty

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six breaks down into two times two times three times

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three forty eight breaks down into two times two times

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two times two times three the Numbers that the 2

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have in common are the two twos and a three

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multiply those out and voila twelve practice finding l c

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m's and gcs on your own and it will pay

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Dividends Just don't let the catch you Those guys are 00:02:15.828 --> [endTime] not to be trifled with

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