How do you find the greatest common factor of $5c^3$ and $11c^2$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-12-14T21:19:07

$c^2$

Rewrite the both numbers in smalles factors.
$5c^3 = 5*c*c*c$
$11c^2 = 11*c*c$

See which factors are in common and then you get $c*c = c^2$ .

So you can rewrite $5c^3$ as $c^2 * 5c$ and $11c^2$ as $c^2 * 11$ .

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