ID : in-6-LCM-and-HCF [1]

Class 6
LCM and HCF
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Answer the questions

(1) Find the LCM (least common multiple) of the following numbers
104, 608, 112, 8, 80
(2) Two brands of muffins are available in the packs of 56 and 24, respectively. Rajesh wants to buy the
same number of muffins of both the brands. What is the least number of packs of each brand of muffins
that he will need to buy?
(3) The length, breadth and height of a room are 14 m 85 cm, 9 m 30 cm, and 7 m 5 cm, respectively.
What is the length of the longest rod which can measure the dimensions of the room exactly?
(4) Find the Least Common Multiple (LCM) of following:
A) 28, 294, 28, 30, 21 B) 24, 48, 18 C) 36, 315, 90, 28

D) 16, 18, 6, 18, 4 E) 49, 168, 14, 32, 42 F) 10, 240, 50, 12

(5) 288 cola cans and 360 fruit juice cans need to be stacked in a school canteen. If each stack is to be of
the same height and has to contain cans of the same type, find the greatest number of cans each stack
can have.
(6) Surjeet saves Rs. 27.45 everyday. Find the minimum number of days for which he need to save to get
his savings as a whole number.
(7) Meenakshi and Shweta are friends as well as cricket coaches in the same school. Meenakshi goes to
Apeejay school every 3 days while Shweta goes there every 7 days to deliver coaching classes. If they
both delivered the coaching sessions today, how many days, in the next 147 days, will both of them be
delivering the coaching sessions on the same day?
(8) 3 bells ring at intervals of 35, 225, 15 seconds, respectively. If the bells ring together at 5 o'clock, when
will they ring together again? How many times will they ring together in 945 minutes?
(9) Determine the two numbers nearest to 1000 which are exactly divisible by 3, 2, 5, 8, 4 and 6.
(10) Find the highest common factor (HCF) of following:
A) 42, 36 B) 65, 130 C) 52, 22

D) 98, 70 E) 72, 39 F) 88, 100

(11) Selucid is a comet that orbits around the sun once in 48 years, and Alferno-Princip is a comet that orbits
around the sun once in 168 years. The last time they were seen together in the sky was in 1999. In
which year will they be next seen together in the sky ?

(12) What is the largest number that divides 285 and 168 leaving a remainder of 6?

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Choose correct answer(s) from the given choices

(13) The product of any two numbers is equal to product of their

a. LCM and HCF b. HCF and either of the two numbers
c. LCM and the first number d. HCF and the sum of the two numbers

Fill in the blanks

(14) The least common multiple (LCM) of 48 and 24 is .

(15) The least common multiple (LCM) of 28 and 28 is .

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Answers
(1) 276640
(2) 3 packs of the first brand, 7 packs of the second brand.
(3) 15 cm

(4) A) 2940 B) 144 C) 1260

D) 144 E) 4704 F) 1200

(5) 72
(6) 20
(7) 7
(8) 5:26:15, 36
(9) 960, 1080

(10) A) 6 B) 65 C) 2

D) 14 E) 3 F) 4

(11) 2335
(12) 9
(13) a. LCM and HCF

(14) 48

(15) 28

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