Greatest Common Divisor or Highest Common Factor

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6th CBSE
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Important Questions on Greatest Common Divisor or Highest Common Factor

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A small-scale industry made different kinds of bulbs. The details are as follows:

Type of Bulbs (in watts) 60 w 90 w 120 w
No. of Bulbs 240 180 120

These bulbs are packed in cartons. Each carton con­tains same number of bulbs and only one variety. Find the minimum number of cartons required to pack these bulbs.

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There are 72 green colour, 144 red colour and 234 orange colour chairs in an auditorium. A boy want to put the chairs in rows such that each row is of the same coloured chairs and the number of chairs is equal in each row. Find the minimum number of rows of chairs in the auditorium.

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Two bags of sugar contains 26 and 39 kg of sugar, respectively. What is the greatest weight that can be used to measure the weight in each bag an exact num­ber of times? How many times of kg will it take to weigh all the sugar in the two bags using this weight?

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Miss Sumitha has three drumsticks in her kitchen which are 72 cm, 90 cm and 84 cm, respectively. She wanted to cut them into equal size of pieces. Find the minimum number of pieces that she can cut.

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There are three empty drums which can hold 384 litres, 576 litres and 288 litres of water. Each of them is to be filled by using a measuring jar, a whole number of times. What is the largest possible capacity of the measuring jar with which we can fill all the three drums?

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On her birthday, Jyothsna received three different cakes of weight 3 kg, 2.6 kg and 2 kg from her father, mother and sister respectively. She cuts the three cakes into pieces of equal weights without any remainder. Find the minimum number of pieces that she can get from the three cakes.

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Find the HCF of 48, 64, 80 by prime factorisation method.

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Find the HCF of 24, 60 by prime factorisation method.

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The HCF and the LCM of two numbers are 2 and 12. Find the possible pairs of numbers.

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Find the HCF of 72, 140, 256 by division method.

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Find the HCF of 84 and 112 by division method.

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The product of two numbers is 1680 and the LCM of two numbers is 420. Find their HCF.

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Find the greatest number that divides 80 and 115 leaving remainders 8 and 7 respectively.

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Find the greatest number that divides 160, 264 leaving a remainder 4 in each case.

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List out all the 2-digit prime numbers which are greater than 50.

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The LCM of a and b is 220. Which of the following can be the HCF of a and b?

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Which of the following is the greatest measure that can be used to measure the quantities 68 m, 102 m, 119 m?