Calculate the Greatest Common Factor or GCF of 625 and 784
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The instructions to find the GCF of 625 and 784 are the next:
1. Decompose all numbers into prime factors
| 625 | 5 |
| 125 | 5 |
| 25 | 5 |
| 5 | 5 |
| 1 |
| 784 | 2 |
| 392 | 2 |
| 196 | 2 |
| 98 | 2 |
| 49 | 7 |
| 7 | 7 |
| 1 |
2. Write all numbers as the product of its prime factors
| Prime factors of 625 | = | 54 |
| Prime factors of 784 | = | 24 . 72 |
3. Choose the common prime factors with the lowest exponent
Common prime factors: None
Common prime factors with the lowest exponent: None
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.
Since there are not common prime factors the GCF is 1
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