Calculate the Greatest Common Factor or GCF of 52 and 2024
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The instructions to find the GCF of 52 and 2024 are the next:
1. Decompose all numbers into prime factors
52 | 2 |
26 | 2 |
13 | 13 |
1 |
2024 | 2 |
1012 | 2 |
506 | 2 |
253 | 11 |
23 | 23 |
1 |
2. Write all numbers as the product of its prime factors
Prime factors of 52 | = | 22 . 13 |
Prime factors of 2024 | = | 23 . 11 . 23 |
3. Choose the common prime factors with the lowest exponent
Common prime factors: 2
Common prime factors with the lowest exponent: 22
4. Calculate the Greatest Common Factor or GCF
Remember, to find the GCF of several numbers you must multiply the common prime factors with the lowest exponent.
GCF = 22 = 4
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