Mathematics Form 1 Chapter 2 Factors and Multiples

1 Solve each of the following: 2 List all the factors of each of the following
(a Is 12 a factor of 36? numbers.
(a 18
)
)

Therefore, factors of 18 are …………..

(b Is 9 a factor of 30?
……………………………………………
)
(b 5
)

(c) Is 6 a factor of 90?

Therefore, factors of 5 are …………..
……………………………………………
(c) 30

(d Is 18 a factor of 98?
) Therefore, factors of 30 are …………..
……………………………………………

(d 49
)

(e Is 3 a factor of 450?
)
Therefore, factors of 49 are …………..
……………………………………………

(e 64
)
(f) Is 1 a factor of 27?

Therefore, factors of 64 are …………..

……………………………………………

(f) 100

(g Is 12 a factor of 40?
)

Therefore, factors of 100 are …………

……………………………………………

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3 List all the prime numbers between 1 and 100.

(e)
56

Factors 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 14, 28, 56

Prime
factors
.

(f)
64

Factors 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64

Prime
. factor(s)
.
4 List all the prime factors for each of the following
numbers. (g)
76
(a)
15
Factors 1, 2, 4, 19, 38, 76

Factors 1, 3, 5, 15 Prime
factors
Prime
.
factors
.
(h)
85
(b)
22
Factors 1, 5, 17, 85

Factors 1, 2, 11, 22 Prime

factors
Prime
.
factors
.
(i)
99
(c)
35
Factors 1, 3, 9, 11, 33, 99

Factors 1, 5, 7, 35 Prime
factors
Prime
factors
.
.
(j)
114
(d)
42
Factors 1, 2, 3, 6, 19, 38, 57, 114

Factors 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 14, 21, 42 Prime

factors
Prime
factors
.

(k)
138

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(g) Is 9 a prime factor of 54?
Factors 1, 2, 3, 6, 23, 46, 69, 138

Prime
factors

5 Solve each of the following.

(a) Is 2 a prime factor of 84?

6 Express each of the following numbers in the
form of prime factorisation.

(a) 60

(b) Is 5 a prime factor of 46?

(b) 42
(c) Is 10 is prime factor of 60?

(d) Is 5 a prime factor of 30?

(c) 96

(e) Is 3 a prime factor of 72?

(d) 120

(f) Is 7 a prime factor of 57?

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(e) 135 (f) Determine whether 7 is a common factor of
28, 35, 91 and 105?

(g) Determine whether 12 is a common factor of

48, 96, 120 and 144?

7 Solve each of the following.

(a) Determine whether 6 is a common factor of

24 and 72?

8 List all the common factors for each of the

following numbers. Hence, determine the HCF.
(b) Determine whether 4 is a common factor of
(a) 12 and 30
28 and 42?

Factors of 12

Factors of 30

(c) Determine whether 8 is a common factor of Common

factors
24 and 72?
Highest
common
factor (HCF)
.

(b) 24 and 48
(d) Determine whether 5 is a common factor of
20 and 35?
Factors of 24

Factors of 48

Common
factors
(e) Determine whether 8 is a common factor of
Highest
16 and 28?
common
factor (HCF)
.

(c) 60 and 75

Factors of 60

Factors of 75

Common
factors

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Highest
common Factors of 44
factor (HCF)
. Factors of 56

(d) 38 and 95 Factors of 92

Factors of 38 Common
factors
Factors of 95 Highest
common
factor (HCF)
Common
factors .
Highest
common
factor (HCF)
.

(e) 28, 84 and 98

Factors of 28 9 Determine the highest common factor of each of

the following numbers by using the method of
Factors of 84 repeated division.

(a) 18 and 24
Factors of 98

Common
factors
Highest
common
factor (HCF)
.

(b) 36, 90 and 108

(f) 42, 63 and 77

Factors of 42

Factors of 63

Factors of 77

Common (c) 24 and 48

factors
Highest
common
factor (HCF)
.

(g) 20, 44, 56 and 92

Factors of 20

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(d) 30 and 72 (i) 75, 105 and 150

(e) 36 and 96

(f) 84 and 132

(g) 36, 45 and 81

1 Solve each of the following:

0
(a) Sarah has 42 muffins and 72 curry puffs.
She wants both types of food on each
plate. The food must be divided equally
and there must not be any leftover. What is
the largest number of plates she will use?
(h) 18, 54 and 90 How many of each type of food should be
put on each plate?

(b) A teacher has to divide 156 girls and 192

boys into all-boy and all-girl camping
groups. Each group must have the same
number of students. What is the largest

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number of students that can be placed in (c) 9
each camping group?

(d) 12

(c) The Boy Scouts of a school held a charity

activity. A total of 252 shirts, 180 pairs of
trousers and 108 pairs of socks were
donated by members to an orphanage. All
the items were divided equally in each (e) 15
pack. What would be the maximum
number of packs that were prepared?

(f) 24

1 List the first eight multiples of:

1
(a) 4

12 Solve each of the following:

(a Is 36 a multiple of 4?
)

(b) 6

(b Is 60 a multiple of 24?
)

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(c) Is 81 a multiple of 3? (b) Determine whether 72 is a common
multiple of 9 and 12?

(d Is 72 a multiple of 7?
) (c) Determine whether 168 is a common
multiple of 2 and 9?

(e Is 168 a multiple of 16?

)
(d) Determine whether 60 is a common
multiple of 5, 15 and 24?

(f) Is 360 a multiple of 24?

(e) Determine whether 360 is a common

multiple of 4, 6 and 24?

(g Is 2250 a multiple of 9?
)

(f) Determine whether 72 is a common

multiple of 8, 9, 18 and 24?

1 Solve each of the following.

3
(a) Determine whether 32 is a common
multiple of 2 and 8?

1 List the first five common multiples for each of

4 the following numbers. Hence, determine the
lowest common multiple (LCM).

(a) 2 and 3

Multiples of 2

Multiples of 3

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Common (a) 6 and 8
multiples

LCM

(b) 3 and 5

Multiples of 3 (b) 4 and 10

Multiples of 5

Common
multiples

LCM

.
(c) 10 and 15
(c) 8 and 12

Multiples of 8

Multiples of 12

Common
multiples (d) 3, 6 and 9
LCM

..

(d) 2, 3 and 4

Multiples of 2
(e) 3, 8 and 12
Multiples of 3

Multiples of 4

Common
multiples

LCM
(f) 12, 16 and 24

1 Determine the lowest common multiple of each

5 of the following numbers by using the method of
repeated division.

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(g) 6, 15 and 18
1 Solve each of the following:
6
(a) Two packets of red and purple balloons are
sold in 6 units and 8 units per packet
respectively. Ainun wants to buy the same
number of balloons for both colours of the
balloon for a birthday party. What is the
least number of packets that should be
bought by Ainun for each colour of the
balloon?

(h) 8, 14 and 32

(b) The bell in a secondary school rings every

45 minutes while the bell in a primary
school rings every 30 minutes. If both bells
ring simultaneously at a particular time,
after how many minutes will both bells ring
again simultaneously?
(i) 9, 12 and 21

(c) A cafeteria serves groundnut cakes every

(j) 4, 15 and 20 4 days and burgers every 6 days. If
groundnut cakes and burgers are served
on Monday, on which day will both types of
food be served on the same day again at
the cafeteria?

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(d) Nurul, Hui Ling and Siva were each given a

piece ribbon of the same length. They cut their
own ribbons into several pieces of the same
length. The pieces of ribbon cut by Nurul, Hui
Ling and Siva measured 15 cm, 25 cm and
30 cm long respectively. All the ribbons were
cut and there were no remainders left. What
was the shortest possible length of the ribbon
given to them?

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