Thursday, September 23, 2021

2021/078) What are two numbers whose HCF is 20 and LCM is 300?

Because HCF is 20 so the 2 numbers are 20m,20n where m or n = 1 or they are co-primes. without loss of generality let us assume that that m < n.

So we have LCM = 20mn = 300 or mn= 15

as mn = 15 and m and n are co-primes so m= 1 , n= 15 or m =3 nd n = 5 giving the 2 numbers (20,300) , (60,100) 

 

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