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Re: What is the least common multiple of 18,120, 216, and 1080? [#permalink]
jsheppa wrote:
Is there a quicker way than factoring all of them? Should I have known that those were all factors of 1080?

Maybe I just need to speed up my factoring, but this one took me a touch over 3 minutes.



Hi,

If you look carefully to the question, you might find a key or pattern.

1- Look to the above solution, when see number X ends with 0, then make two multiplied numbers, x = 'A * 10'

2- Let's see 1080 = 108 * 10. If you tried to factor 108 I started to divide b 3 so I got 108 = 3 * 36.....So I quickly recognized it is 3 * 6^2. and you can continue.

I detailed process above. However, You need to practice to and hence you will get the skill.
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