What is the least common factor of 37 and 11?

To answer the question, "What is the least common factor of 37 and 11?", we will start by defining and listing factors of 37 and 11.

Factors of 37 are all the integers that when multiplied by another integer equal 37. Likewise, factors of 11 are all the integers that when multiplied by another integer equal 11.

The factors of 37 are 1 and 37.

The factors 11 are 1 and 11.

When you ask, "What is the least common factor of 37 and 11?", least is the key word here. Least means smallest. Thus, the smallest or least common factor that 37 and 11 have in common is 1.

Note that all integers, such as 37 and 11, have 1 as one of its factors. Thus, the answer to the least common factor of any two integers greater than 0 will always be 1.

Now that you know the least common factor of 37 and 11, you may also be interested in knowing the greatest common factor of 37 and 11. The greatest factor 37 and 11 have in common, per the list above, is 1.

When you asked for the least common factor of 37 and 11, did you mean least common multiple? If so, the least common multiple of 37 and 11 is 407.

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