Thursday, January 26, 2023

BITE SIZE: HCF and LCM using Index Notation

As we are still warming up to HCF and LCM, you will work on the BITE SIZE tasks (in the next post) to check on your mastery of using the INDEX NOTATION (technique) to find HCF and LCM. 

HCF


 

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LCM





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These 2 clips summarises how we can find HCF and LCM of 2 or more numbers


Clip 1: Observe what are the factors 'circled' in each case

When we look for Highest common factor, technically, we are looking for the 'lowest' power.
For the Lowest common multiple, technically, we multiply the prime factors with the highest power.



Clip 2: Some of us learnt to find the HCF and LCM using the division method.
The clip attempts to show how these 2 methods (i.e. Long Division method and Index Notation Method) are related to each other - the same thinking behind, though the representation looks different.






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