Question

What is the greatest common factor of 16,32,and 44

Answer 1

Do you know what the greatest common factor of a set of numbers is defined as?

Answer 2

This sort of question can be brute-forced easily by simply writing out all of the factors of the numbers in question, at least for simple cases like this.

Answer 3

\[16=4 \times\color{blue}{ 4 }\]\[32=8 \times \color{blue}{ 4 }\]\[44=11 \times \color{blue}{ 4 }\]

Answer 4

Which factor they share in common?

Answer 5

(couldn't possibly be the one you highlighted in blue)

Answer 6

so it would be the highest number that goes into all the numbers?

Answer 7

YES!

Answer 8

thanks