What is the least common factor of 77 and 82?

To answer the question, "What is the least common factor of 77 and 82?", we will start by defining and listing factors of 77 and 82.

Factors of 77 are all the integers that when multiplied by another integer equal 77. Likewise, factors of 82 are all the integers that when multiplied by another integer equal 82.

The factors of 77 are 1, 7, 11, and 77.

The factors 82 are 1, 2, 41, and 82.

When you ask, "What is the least common factor of 77 and 82?", least is the key word here. Least means smallest. Thus, the smallest or least common factor that 77 and 82 have in common is 1.

Note that all integers, such as 77 and 82, 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 77 and 82, you may also be interested in knowing the greatest common factor of 77 and 82. The greatest factor 77 and 82 have in common, per the list above, is 1.

When you asked for the least common factor of 77 and 82, did you mean least common multiple? If so, the least common multiple of 77 and 82 is 6314.

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