How do you find the Least common multiple of $25x^2, 25y$ ?

Question

2521 views around the world

You can reuse this answer
Creative Commons License

Answer 1 · 2017-01-21T15:15:45

This is an algebra question. Should it be placed in Prealgebra?

The only way you can make this work is as follows:

Let $" "25x^2=25yxxk$

Divide both sides by $25$

$x^2=kx$

Let the least common multiple be $m$ giving

$mx^2=kmy$

$color(brown)("If this is not the case then there is no common multiple")$

How do you find the Least common multiple of 25x^2, 25y25x^2, 25y?