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Common Divisors and Greatest Common Divisor
C-3Word Problems (Common Divisors)
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- Common Divisors and Greatest Common Divisor
Questions writing out the divisors two numbers share, and questions finding the largest among them, stand side by side as Calculation. The Word Problems, which share out fruit or stationery of two kinds with nothing left over, call for the same operation.
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Some of the sharing questions ask for the number of people once one person is set aside. Papers add the 1 that is a perfectly good divisor, so a 1 left in the row of answers means the instruction to set someone aside went unread. In a bare question, 1 is a correct answer.
The row written out for a single number in Divisors and Multiples (Listing) is here brought together in twos to hunt for the overlap. Common Multiples and Least Common Multiple hunts for that overlap on the side of multiples.
- Listing Common Divisors (Word Problems)5 questions
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These are the problems in “Properties of Integers (Divisors and Multiples)”, shown with their answers.
(1)There are 32 notebooks and 48 erasers. We want to share these notebooks and these erasers each equally among some number of people, with none left over. Excluding 1 person, list all the numbers of people that they can be shared among equally. Answer □
Answer: 2, 4, 8, 16
(2)There are 18 candies and 12 cookies. We want to share these candies and these cookies each equally among some number of people, with none left over. Excluding 1 person, list all the numbers of people that they can be shared among equally. Answer □
Answer: 2, 3, 6
(3)There are 12 notebooks and 36 stickers. We want to share these notebooks and these stickers each equally among some number of people, with none left over. Excluding 1 person, list all the numbers of people that they can be shared among equally. Answer □
Answer: 2, 3, 4, 6, 12
(4)There are 16 cherries and 48 peaches. We want to share these cherries and these peaches each equally among some number of people, with none left over. Excluding 1 person, list all the numbers of people that they can be shared among equally. Answer □
Answer: 2, 4, 8, 16
(5)There are 15 apples and 30 bananas. We want to share these apples and these bananas each equally among some number of people, with none left over. Excluding 1 person, list all the numbers of people that they can be shared among equally. Answer □
Answer: 3, 5, 15
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