What are the common factors (divisors) of the numbers 8,999,999,992 and 16,999,999,969?
The common factors of the numbers 8,999,999,992 and 16,999,999,969 are all the factors of their 'greatest common factor', gcf
Calculate the greatest (highest) common factor (divisor).
Follow the two steps below.
1. Perform the prime factorization of the two numbers:
The prime factorization of a number: finding the prime numbers that multiply together to make that number.
8,999,999,992 = 23 × 1,124,999,999
8,999,999,992 is not a prime number but a composite one.
16,999,999,969 = 47 × 167 × 619 × 3,499
16,999,999,969 is not a prime number but a composite one.
- Prime number: a natural number that is divisible only by 1 and itself. A prime number has exactly two factors: 1 and itself.
- Examples of prime numbers: 2 (factors 1, 2), 3 (factors 1, 3), 5 (factors 1, 5), 7 (factors 1, 7), 11 (factors 1, 11), 13 (factors 1, 13), ...
- A composite number is a natural number that has at least one factor other than 1 and itself. So it is neither a prime number nor 1.
- Examples of composite numbers: 4 (it has 3 factors: 1, 2, 4), 6 (it has 4 factors: 1, 2, 3, 6), 8 (it has 4 factors: 1, 2, 4, 8), 9 (it has 3 factors: 1, 3, 9), 10 (it has 4 factors: 1, 2, 5, 10), 12 (it has 6 factors: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12), ...
2. Calculate the greatest (highest) common factor (divisor), gcf, hcf, gcd:
Multiply all the common prime factors, taken by their smallest exponents (the smallest powers).
But the two numbers have no common prime factors.
gcf, hcf, gcd (8,999,999,992; 16,999,999,969) = 1
Coprime numbers (prime to each other, relatively prime);