What is the greatest common factor of 42, 12, and 6?

Mathematics

2 answers:

marishachu [46]3 years ago

6 0

Answer:

The greatest common factor is surprisingly 6.

All three numbers can be divided by 6 and it is the highest value that can be taken from all three numbers.

Step-by-step explanation:

Hope this helps.

stira [4]3 years ago

6 0

Answer:

the GCF of those numbers is 6.

Step-by-step explanation:

One way to solve this is to list the factors of them, then find the greatest one that they share.

42: 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 14, 21, 42

12: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12

6: 1, 2, 3, 6

If we look at them, notice that six is in all of them. All of them have factors of six. Can we go any higher than that? No because six is the greatest factor of six, so we can't go any higher and still have all of them share a GCF. So your answer is 6.

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