What is the least common factor of 65 and 35?

To answer the question, "What is the least common factor of 65 and 35?", we will start by defining and listing factors of 65 and 35.

Factors of 65 are all the integers that when multiplied by another integer equal 65. Likewise, factors of 35 are all the integers that when multiplied by another integer equal 35.

The factors of 65 are 1, 5, 13, and 65.

The factors 35 are 1, 5, 7, and 35.

When you ask, "What is the least common factor of 65 and 35?", least is the key word here. Least means smallest. Thus, the smallest or least common factor that 65 and 35 have in common is 1.

Note that all integers, such as 65 and 35, 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 65 and 35, you may also be interested in knowing the greatest common factor of 65 and 35. The greatest factor 65 and 35 have in common, per the list above, is 5.

When you asked for the least common factor of 65 and 35, did you mean least common multiple? If so, the least common multiple of 65 and 35 is 455.

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