What is the least common factor of 76 and 34?

To answer the question, "What is the least common factor of 76 and 34?", we will start by defining and listing factors of 76 and 34.

Factors of 76 are all the integers that when multiplied by another integer equal 76. Likewise, factors of 34 are all the integers that when multiplied by another integer equal 34.

The factors of 76 are 1, 2, 4, 19, 38, and 76.

The factors 34 are 1, 2, 17, and 34.

When you ask, "What is the least common factor of 76 and 34?", least is the key word here. Least means smallest. Thus, the smallest or least common factor that 76 and 34 have in common is 1.

Note that all integers, such as 76 and 34, 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 76 and 34, you may also be interested in knowing the greatest common factor of 76 and 34. The greatest factor 76 and 34 have in common, per the list above, is 2.

When you asked for the least common factor of 76 and 34, did you mean least common multiple? If so, the least common multiple of 76 and 34 is 1292.

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