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You will develop your skill in solving real-life problems involving GCF and LCM.
Specifically, this module will help you to

❖ solve real-life problems involving GCF and LCM;

❖ perform the following methods: listing, prime factorization and continuous
division; and
❖ apply the steps in problem solving.
 Before going further, let us try to recall how to find GCF and LCM of two numbers. Be
guided by the tree methods that you have learned: Prime factorization, Listing Method
and Continuous Division.
Complete the table below: Find the GCF of the following.

3
8
10

36
210
The heart of math education is problem solving. It is often beneficial to introduced challenging word
problems that increase the students’ level of understanding of GCF and LCM. GCF is most commonly used
when reducing a fraction to its lowest terms, while LCM is used when adding unlike fractions.

Example 1. Read and study the problem below

Shellah is making identical balloon arrangements for a party. She has 24 white balloons, and
36 pink balloons. She wants each arrangement to have the same number of each color. What
is the greatest number of arrangements that she can make if every balloon is used?

How can you tell if a problem requires you to use Greatest Common Factor or Least Common
Multiple to solve?
Why GCF and LCM important to learn?
How is it useful in real life? Let’s find out!
 When do we use GCF and when do we use LCM?
• GCF problems usually asked you to:
- Split things into smaller sections
- Figure out how many people we can invite
- Arrange something in rows or groups
- Equally distribute 2 or more sets of items into their largest grouping
To solve the problem:
Use the problem-solving process:
1. Understand
- What do I know? Shellah has 24 white balloons, and 36 pink balloons.

The greatest number of arrangements that she can

- What do I need to know?
make if every balloon is used?
2. Plan
This problem can be solved using Greatest Common Factor because we are
- What is my plan? arranging or “dividing” the balloons into smaller pieces, GCF.
3. Solve
- Get the factors of 24 and 36 24 = 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 24
36 = 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 12, 36
- Get the common factors 24 = 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12
36 = 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12

4. Look back
GCF = 12
Since the GCF of 24 and 36 is 12, the greatest number of balloons arrangements she can
make in each color is 12 balloons.
 • LCM problems usually asked you to:
- Check if an event that will be repeating over and over?
- Purchase or get multiple items in order to have enough?
- Figure out when something will happen again at the same time?

Example 2. Read and study the problem below.

Ms. Cortez goes to market once every 3 days. Ms. Grande goes to the same market once
every 5 days. If the last time they-went
What do I know?
to the market together was on the 1st week of April, on
which date will they go together again.
To solve the problem: Use the 4 steps plan in solving problems.

1. Understand
- What do I know?