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What is LCM

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please explain it briefly

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Simran Gill

LCM is the lowest common multiple, for example for the numbers 3 and 5 the lowest common multiple is 15. It the smallest number that both numbers can multiply into without a remainder.

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Megan Bolaney

LCM stands for the Lowest Common Multiple. A multiple of a number is a number in its times tables, for example, 20 is a multiple of 10 because it is 2x10. The LCM of two numbers is the lowest multiple that they both have in common. For example, the LCM of 2 and 5 is 10, because 10 is the lowest number that is a multiple of both 2 and 5.

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Lcm is least common multiple which means it's the smallest multiple what two or more numbers have in common for eg .. take 2 numbers , number 2 and 3 . Multiple of 2 are 2,4,6,8 and so on and multiple of 3 are 3,6,9 and so on now the common and smallest number is 6 . So 6 is the lcm

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Punith Chandra

LCM stands for "Least Common Multiple," and it's a concept in math that's used to find the smallest number that is a multiple of two or more other numbers. 


Think of it like this: If you have two numbers, say 3 and 4, the multiples of 3 are 3, 6, 9, 12, and so on, and the multiples of 4 are 4, 8, 12, 16, and so on. The LCM is the smallest number that appears in the list of multiples of both 3 and 4, which in this case is 12.


So, the LCM helps you find the smallest number that two or more numbers can evenly go into, without leaving a remainder. It's useful in various math problems and calculations.

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Emma Beattie

LCM stands for Lowest Common Multiple.


This is the lowest multiple that 2 integers share.


For example, the lowest common multiple of 2 and 3 is 6.

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Least Common Multiple. The least common multiple of 2 numbers is the smallest number that is a multiple of both. For example : LCM of 2 and 7 is 14.

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Tajwar Chowdhury

LCM stands for 'Lowest common multiple'. This can be found between 2 numbers by writing out a list of each numbers multiples (e.g., for 2 and 3 you would write out 2,4,6,8,10... and 3,6,9,12...). The lowest number found in both lists will give you the LCM

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Lowest or Least Common Multiple


What is the LCM of 7 and 3


List the multiples of each number:

7, 14, 21, 28, 35

3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24


Find the lowest number that appears in both lists.


LCM of 7 and 3 = 21

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George Baldwin

LCM is the lowest common multiple shared by two numbers. For example the lowest common multiple of 7 and 3 is 21.

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Midhusha

LCM stands for least common multiple. It is the smallest common factor between two or more numbers. So the smallest number is divisible by all the original numbers is said to be the LCM of those numbers.

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Mohammed Emdadul Hoque

The LCM stands for Lowest Common Multiple, this means that the LCM is the smallest number in which two numbers can be a multiple of. For example:

The common multiple of 6 and 10 is 60, however when we look at the multiples of both numbers, we see that 30 is the LOWEST common multiple.

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