What is the greatest common factor of 32 and 36?

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Answer 1 · 2018-03-07T18:12:12

GCF = 4

Greatest Common Factor is :
4
Calculate Greatest Common Factor for :
32, 36

Factorize of the above numbers :
$32 = 2^5=2^2 * 2^3$
$36 = 2^2 * 3^2$

Hope I helped, Good day!

Answer 2 · 2018-03-07T18:13:23

$GCF(32,36)=color(red)4$

Since
$color(white)("XXX")32=color(red)4 xx color(green)8$
and
$color(white)("XXX")36=color(red)4xx color(magenta)9$

and since $color(green)8$ and $color(magenta)9$ obviously have no common factors (other than $1$ )

$color(red)4$ must be the greatest common factor of $32$ and $36$