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The greatest common factor of 40 and 24 is 8.
8 goes into 40 5 times:
8 goes into 24 3 times.
We can rewrite this expression for distribution using the amount of times 8 goes into both numbers:
8(5 + 3)
Using this, we get:
8(5) + 8(3) = 40 + 24.
Answer:
7.
Step-by-step explanation:
21 = 3 * 7
28 = 2 * 2 * 7
42 = 2 * 3 * 7
Collecting common factors:
t is common to all 3 sets of factors so
HCF = 7.