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Question
HCF of co-prime numbers 4 and 15 was found as follows by factorization:
4 = 2 × 2 and 15 = 3 × 5 since there is no common prime factor, so HCF of 4 and 15 is 0. Is the answer correct? If not, what is the correct HCF?
Solution
No, This statement is not correct. We know that 1 is the number which is the product of all the numbers. Therefore the correct HCF Is 1.
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