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What is LCM

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Bait-Toyin Ajani

Lowest common multiple. It's essentially the smallest number that is a multiple of 2 or more numbers. So for example, the smallest number that is a multiple of both 3 and 13 is 39.

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The lowest common multiple (LCM) is the lowest multiple shared by two or more numbers.

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LCM is least common factor

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Sandra Aidaghese

LCM means the Lowest Common Factor of a number

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LCM is the short form for “Least Common Multiple.” The least common multiple is defined as the smallest multiple that two or more numbers have in common. For example: Take two integers, 2 and 3. Multiples of 2: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20.

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Tamara Awad

LCM is the lowest common denominator.

This is when you have 2 numbers and you need to find the lowest number that is a multiple of both of those numbers.

For example, with the numbers 35 and 42, the lowest common denominator is 7. That is because this is the lowest number that BOTH 35 and 42 can be divided by to achieve a whole number.

You may think the LCM is 1, as any number can be divided by 1 to get a whole number, but 1 doesn't count as an LCM.

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Melisa Peci

This is known as the least common multiple of two or more numbers. Here is an example, some multiples of 3 are: 3,6,9,12. The multiples of 2 are: 2,4,6,8 therefore the smallest common number between 3 and 2 is 6. Let me know if this helps!

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The LCM is the Lowest Common Multiple. The Lowest Common Multiple of two numbers is the smallest number that is a multiple of both of them.

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The LCM stand for the lowest common multiple and the smallest possible number that 2 other numbers share in their multiplication sequences, For example if we were to find the lowest common multiple of 8 and 6, we cans see that the first number that appears of their multiples is 24, where 6 x 4 = 24 and 8 x 3 = 24.

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Wanja Gatheru

LCM is the least common multiple. In the case of two numbers, the least common multiple is the smallest number that is a multiple of both numbers.

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Kajol Jain

LCM stands for "Least Common Multiple".


It is the smallest positive integer that is divisible by two or more given numbers without leaving any remainder.



For example, the LCM of 3 and 4 is 12. This is because 12 is the smallest number that is divisible by both 3 and 4 without leaving a remainder.

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The LCM of two numbers is their lowest common multiple. It is the lowest number than can be divided by these two numbers. For example, the lowest common multiple of 2 and 8, is 8.

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It stands for ‘Lowest Common Multiple’. It means, what is the lowest multiple that is common to 2 or more numbers. For example, the LCM of 6 and 8 is 24.

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Alice Jones

The LCM (or Lowest Common Multiple) is the smallest number that is a multiple of two (or more) numbers. We can find this by listing out the multiples of each number. For example, to find the LCM of 4 and 6, we will list the multiples of 4 and the multiples of 6. So we have 4,8,12,16,20,... and 6,12,18,... We can see that the smallest number that is a multiple of both is 12, so 12 is the LCM in this case!

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Sudha Davarakonda

LCM stands for Least Common Multiple.

It’s the smallest number that is a multiple of two or more numbers.

Example:

Find the LCM of 4 and 5:

Multiples of 4: 4, 8, 12, 16, 20...

Multiples of 5: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25...

The least common multiple is 20.

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