 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1871 - 350 pages
...remainder ; thus 6 is a multiple of 3. 126, A Common Mnltiple of two or more numbers is a number that can be divided by each of them without a remainder ; thus 12 is a common multiple of 3 and 4. 127, The Least Common Mnltiple of two or more numbers is the least number that can be divided... | |
 | Shelton Palmer Sanford - Arithmetic - 1872 - 404 pages
...9; of 12; of 15; of 20, of 25. ART. 87. A COMMON MULTIPLE of two or more numbers is any number that can be divided by each of them without a remainder. Thus, 12 is a common multiple of 2, 3, 4 and 6, because it can be divided by each of these numbers without a remainder. Give a common multiple... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1872 - 236 pages
...Com. Multiple of two or more numbers ? The Least Common Multiple of two or more numbers, is the least number which can be divided by each of them without a remainder. Thus, 12 is the least common multiple of 2, 3, and 4. 1. What is the least com. multiple of 12, 18, and 21 ? 1ST... | |
 | Popular educator - 1872 - 842 pages
...+ 2ai> + b1. LEAST COMMON MULTIPLE. 114. A commen multiple of two or more quantities is a quantity which can be divided by each of them without a remainder. Thus 12a& is % common multiple of 4a and (!'< ; or of 3a and 2b, etc. 115. The least common multiple of... | |
 | Richard Rickard - 1873 - 364 pages
...multiple of the other number. Thus 1 2 is a multiple of 3 because it is exactly divisible by 3. 44. A common multiple of two or more numbers is a number which is exactly divisible by each of them without a remainder. Thus 1 2 is a common multiple of 2, 3, 6.... | |
 | H T. Sortwell - 1873 - 176 pages
...said to be a Multiple of another when it can be divided exactly by that other without a remainder. A Common Multiple of two or more numbers is a number which contains each of the given numbers exactly. The Least Common Multiple of two or more numbers is the... | |
 | Philotus Dean - Arithmetic - 1874 - 472 pages
...have a greatest multiple, because no multiplier can be found so great that there can be no greater. A common multiple of two or more numbers is a number which is divisible by each of them. Thus, 6 is a multiple which is common to 2 and 3; 12 is a multiple which... | |
 | Stoddard A. Felter, Samuel Ashbel Farrand - Arithmetic - 1875 - 316 pages
...number that can be so divided by 4 and 5, 20 is said to be the least common multiple of 4 and 5. 75. A Common Multiple of two or more numbers is a number...can be divided by each of them without a remainder. 76. A Least Common Multiple of two or more numbers is the least number which can be divided by each... | |
 | Popular educator - 1876 - 854 pages
...remainder, it is said to be a measure of it, and the latter number is said to be a multiple of the first. A common multiple of two or more numbers is a number which can bo divided bj each of them without a remainder. It win clearly be a composite number, of which each... | |
 | Milton Browning Goff - Arithmetic - 1876 - 462 pages
...171. A Multiple of a number is any number which is divisible by it. Thus, 15 is a multiple of 5. 172. A Common Multiple of two or more numbers is a number which is divisible by each of them. Thus, 12 is a multiple common to 2, 3, 4, and 6. 173. The Least Common... | |
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A common multiple of two or more numbers is a number that can be divided by each of them without a remainder ; thus 12 is a common multiple of 3 and 4. 
