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How Do You Find the Greatest Common Factor of Three Numbers? Instructional VideoHow Do You Find the Greatest Common Factor of Three Numbers? Instructional Video
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How Do You Find the Greatest Common Factor of Three Numbers?

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Use prime factorization to find the greatest common factor of three given values. What are the factors that all three given numbers have in common? Identify them, and then multiply together to get the greatest common factor. Just like that. Watch this video to see how it's done.

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Grade
6th - 8th
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Math
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Resource Type
Instructional Videos
Media Length
1:58
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