Friday, July 6, 2007

How can we use factor trees to find the Greatest Common Factor?

2 comments:

Unknown said...

You fist have to do the factor tree and then find the #s they have in common. If you have the same # but they both have different powers, you look for the lowest power. And if two #s are the same, you have to multiply it to find the GCF.

Unknown said...

30 15
15 2 3 5
3 5 2


GCF = 5