The Greatest Common Factor also known as GCF is the largest number that can divide equally into two or more numbers.
For the problem they ask 'Which number pair has a 'GCF' of 6.
First let's look at the answer choice 'A' that gives us 18 and 54.
Now for this we need to list the factors of both 18 and 54. A factor being a number that can be multiplied by another number to get the sum.
18: 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 18
54: 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 18, 27, 54
So right away we can see the the largest number that can be divided into both of them equally is not 6, it is 18. This means we can mark out A as a possible answer.
Next let's try B and list the factors of both 30 and 42.
30: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 15, 30
42: 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 14, 21, 42
Looks like we found our answer! The largest factor they have in common is 6!
I'm still going to go ahead and list the GCF's for answers C and D.
Turn each number into the product of it's prime factors.
32=16x2=2x2x2x2x2=2^5
48=24*2=6x4x2=2x3x2x2x2
Pick the highest number that occurs. In this case it is 2. Now we have to see how many times it appears in both. It appears 5 times in 32 and 4 times in 48. 4 is the highest number of times it appears in the numbers so:
2^4=2x2x2x2=16
The Greatest Common Factor (GCF) of 32 and 48 is 16.