 | Silas Sadler Packard, Byron Horton - Business mathematics - 1882 - 324 pages
...Multiple of two or more numbers is a number that is exactly divisible by each of them. 33. The Least Common Multiple of two or more numbers is the least number that is exactly divisible by each of them. 34. PRINCIPLES. — 1. A multiple of a number contains all the prime... | |
 | John Williston Cook - Arithmetic - 1883 - 200 pages
...times that number. A common multiple of two or more numbers is a multiple of each of them. The least common multiple of two or more numbers is the least number that is a multiple of each of them. What is the I. cm of 56, 72, 96. 72 = 2. 2. 2. 3. 3, (. 2. 2. 2. 2. 2.3.3.7=2016=1.0.... | |
 | Warren H. Sadler, William Russell Will - Arithmetic - 1885 - 422 pages
...common multiple of two or more numbers contains all the prime factors of those numbers. [c] The least common multiple of two or more numbers is the least number that contains all the prime factors of those numbers. EXAMPLES. Find tlle least common multiple of 1. $18,... | |
 | James Beveridge (headmaster of the Church of Scotl. normal sch, Glasgow.) - 1885 - 104 pages
...numbers so many times without a remainder. Thus, 24 is a Common Multiple of 2, 3, 6, 8, and 12. The Least Common Multiple of two or more numbers is the least number that will contain each of the others without a remainder. Thus, 24 is the LCM of 2, 3, 6, 8, and 12. 51... | |
 | Edward Sylvester Ellis - Arithmetic - 1886 - 200 pages
...exactly divisible by each of them; thus, 24 is a common multiple of 4, 6, 8 and 12. ART. 78.—The Least Common Multiple of two or more numbers is the least number that is exactly divisible by each of them ; thus, 20 is the least common multiple of 2, 4, 5, and 10. Factors.... | |
 | William A. Campbell - Readers - 1887 - 224 pages
...divisor of each of them. The two methods of finding it are by factoring and by division. The Least Common Multiple of two or more numbers is the least number that is exactly divisible by each of them. In'te gral -eom pos/ite e? a-et' •ean eel la'tion dl vls/i ble... | |
 | Charles Scott Venable - Arithmetic - 1888 - 242 pages
...number that contains two or more numbers as factors or divisors is called their least common multiple. Thus, 12 is the least common multiple of 2, 3, 4, and 6 ; 14, of 2 and 7 ; 16, of 2, 4, and 8 ; and 18, of 2, 3, 6, and 9. 131. Copy, and complete, writing... | |
 | George Soulé - Arithmetic - 1888 - 568 pages
...a common multiple of 1, 2, 3, 4, 0, 12, and 24. 166. The Least Common Multiple of two or more given numbers is the least number that is divisible by each of them without a remainder. Thus, 12 is the teast common multiple of 1, 2, 3, 4, G, and 12. NOTE. — Since... | |
 | Warren H. Sadler - 1888 - 426 pages
...of two or more numbers must contain all the prime factors of each of those numbers. , 3. TJie least common multiple of two or more numbers is the least number that contains all the prime factors of each of those numbers. REM. — Two or more numbers have an unlimited... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Finkel - Mathematics - 1888 - 518 pages
...Common Multiple of two or more numbers is a number that will exactly contain each of them. 3. The Least Common Multiple of two or more numbers is the least number that will exactly contain each of them. I. Find the LCM of 30, 40, 50. {1. 30=2X3X5. 2. 40=2X2X2X5. 3. 50=2X5X5.... | |
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