Check Your Understanding Are you more likely to win a random drawing if you crinkle the paper that contains your name before put
ting it into the drawing box? A curious student conducted a study to investigate. The student took 100 equal sized slips of paper and crinkled 25 of them before putting them all into a box. After mixing well, they asked an uninformed person to select a winner at random. The student noted if the slip was crinkled. The slip was returned to the box, mixed well, and asked another uninformed person to select a winner at random. This process was repeated 10 times. Let Y = the number of times that a crinkled paper was selected.
The GCF is based upon what integer divides evenly into two numbers; the LCM is based upon what integer two numbers share in a list of multiples. The GCF must be a prime number; the LCM must be a composite number.
