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Practise 1

1. Find the HCF of 56 and 84?

2. Find the largest whole number which is a factor of both 28 and 70?

3. The numbers 504 and 588, written as the product of their prime factors, 504 = 23 x 32 x 7
and 22 x 3 x 72 . Hence, find the greatest whole number that will divide both 504 and 588
exactly?

4. Find the HCF of 90, 135 and 270?

5. Find the LCM of 24 and 90?

6. The numbers 120 and 126, written as the product of their prime factors, 120 = 23 x 3 x 5
and 126 = 2 x 32 x 7. Hence, find the smallest whole number that will divide both 120 and
126 exactly?
7. Find the smallest value of n such that the LCM of n and 6 is 24?

8. Find the LCM of 9, 30 and 108?

9. Three bell toll at regular intervals of 15 minutes, 16 minutes and 36 minutes respectively.
Given that they toll together at 2.00 pm., at what time will they next toll together?

10. Farhan has three pieces of rope with lengths of 140 cm, 168 cm and 210 cm. He wishes to
cut all the three pieces of ropes into smaller pieces of equal length such that there is no
leftover rope.
(i) What is the greatest possible length of each of smaller pieces of rope?
(ii) How many smaller pieces of rope can he get altogether?