 | William Guy Peck - Arithmetic - 1878 - 240 pages
...a number that is exactly divisible by each. Thus, 18 is a common multiple of 2, 3, and C. The Least Common Multiple of two or more numbers is the least number that is exactly divisible by each. Thus, 12 is the least common multiple of 2, 3, and 6. OPERATION OF FINDING... | |
 | Joseph Ray - Arithmetic - 1879 - 200 pages
...that can be divided by each without a remainder. Thus, 90 is a common multiple of 9 and 15. The Least Common Multiple of two or more numbers is the least number that can be divided by each without a remainder. Thus, 15 is the least common multiple of 3 and 5. A common... | |
 | Thomas K. Brown - Algebra - 1879 - 292 pages
...Common Multiple of two or more quantities is any quantity that each will exactly divide. 87. The Least Common Multiple of two or more numbers is the least number that each will exactly divide. The Least Common Multiple of two or more algebraic quantities is that multiple... | |
 | William Frothingham Bradbury - Arithmetic - 1879 - 446 pages
...divisible by each of the given numbers ; thus, 48 is the common multiple of 4, 6, and 8. 104. The Least Common Multiple of two or more numbers is the least number that is divisible by each of the given numbers ; thus, 24 is the least common multiple of 4, 6, and 8. 105.... | |
 | Education - 1880 - 956 pages
...numeral adjective. See "hundred" in Webster's Dictionary; also Worcester's Dictionary. (b) The LCM of two or more numbers is the least number that contains all the prime factors found in each of the given numbers, (c) The GCD of two or more numbers is the least number that contains... | |
 | George E. Seymour - Arithmetic - 1880 - 332 pages
...each of them. Thus, 144 is a common multiple of 72, 48, 24, 16, 12, 9, 8, 6, 4, 3, 2. 93. The Least Common Multiple of two or more numbers is the least number that will contain each of them an integral number of times. Thus, tJO is the least common multiple of 30,... | |
 | John Alexander Henderson - Ready-reckoners - 1882 - 232 pages
...contain all the prime factors of those numbers. The least common multiple of two or more numbers must be the least number that contains all the prime factors of those numbers. RULE. — The product of all the prime factors of that number having the greatest number of prime factors,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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...that contains all the prime factors of those numbers. EXAMPLES. Find tlle least common multiple of 1. $18, $30, $36. 2. 24 bushels, 36 bn., 42 bo. 3. 5 barrels,... | |
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