A common factor of two or more numbers is a number that divides each of them evenly without leaving a remainder. For example, 6 and 18 have a common factor...
A common factor of two or more numbers is a number that divides each of them evenly without leaving a remainder. For example, 6 and 18 have a common factor of 3, since 3 divides both 6 and 18 without leaving a remainder.
To take out the common factors of two or more numbers, we need to find all the factors of each number and identify the numbers that are common to all of them. The common factors are then the numbers that appear in the factor lists of all the numbers.
For example, if we have the following numbers: 12, 18, 24, 30
The common factors of these numbers are 6, 30.
By removing the common factors from the original numbers, we are left with the following: 12, 18, 24, 30, which are all divisible by 6 without leaving a remainder