LCM AND HCF

1. Find the LCM of 18, 24 and 36.

(a) 36 (b) 72 (c) 24 (d) 64

2. Find the LCM of 120, 240, 480?

(a) 960 (b) 240 (c) 1800 (d) 480

3. What is the least common multiple of 6 and 110?

(a) 330 (b) 440 (c) 660 (d) 300

4. Find the LCM of 1.2, 1.8, 2, 2.5?

(a) 25 (b) 30 (c) 90 (d) 120

5. The least common multiple of 192 and 480 is 60 more than 100 times of x. What is
the value of x?
(a) 18 (b) 6 (c) 12 (d) 9

6. If the least common multiple of the first 110 natural numbers is N, then find the least
common multiple of the first 115 natural numbers.
(a) 111 x 112 x 113 x 114 x 115 N (b) 115 N (c) 111 x 113 N
(d) 113 N

7.find the LCM of 2/3, 4/7, 9/13

(a)15 (b)28 (c)36 (d)12

8. Find the highest common factor of 1020, 850 and 1156.

(a) 22 (b) 34 (c) 28 (d) 24

9. The HCF of 3073, 1756 and 4829 is x. What will be product of the digits of x?
(a) 72 (b) 96 (c) 108 (d) 81

10. What is the HCF of 108 and 198?

(a) 12 (b) 98 (c) 18 (d) 34
11. Find the HCF of4/11 and 16/33?
(a)4/33 (b) 4/77 (c) 2/11 (d) 3/11

12. Two number are in the ratio 11:13. If their greatest common divisor is 7. Find the
number.
(a) 63 and 70 (b) 77 and 91 (c) 70 and 80 (d) 21 and 28

13. Two number are in the ratio 3:4 and their greatest common divisor is 5. Find the
least common multiple of those numbers?
(a)62 (b)60 (c)48 (d)58

14. The greatest common factor of two number is 14 and their least common multiple is
490. If the Ist number is 70. Find the second number.
(a) 98 (b) 65 (c) 74 (d) 78

15. If the greatest common divisor of two numbers 456 and 240 is 24, then the least
common multiple of the given number will be,
(a)2400 (b)4560 (c)1200 (d)2280

16. The least common multiple of two number is 990 and their product is 9900. What is
their greatest common divisor
(a) 12 (b) 8 (c) 9 (d) 10

17. The product of two numbers is 1280 and their HCF is 8. The LCM of the number
will be
(a) 160 (b) 150 (c) 120 (d) 140

18. If the HCF of two numbers is 8 then which of the following not be their LCM.
following can
(a) 68 (b) 72 (c) 48 (d) 24

19. The product of two numbers is 720. If their LCM is 360, then what will be the HCF
of these two numbers?
(a) 20 (b) 2 (c) 120 (d) 60
20. The product of two number is 3375 and their greatest common divisor is 15. Find
their least common multiple?
(a) 225 (b) 250 (c) 220 (d) 215

21. If x: y be the ratio of two whole numbers and z be their HCF, then the LCM of these
two numbers:
(a) yz (b) xz (c) xу (d) xyz

22. The LCM and the HCF of the numbers 28 and 42 are in the ratio:
(a) 6:1 (b) 2:3 (c) 3:2 (d) 7:2

23. Two numbers are in the ratio 2:3. Their greatest common factor and least common
multiple are 21 and 126 respectively. What is the difference between these two
numbers?
(a) 21 (b) 25 (c) 18 (d) 20

24. Two numbers are in the ratio 5:9 and their least common multiple is 405. Find the
numbers.
(a) 45 and 8 (b) 65 and 95 (c) 45 and 71 (d) 55 and 99

25. What is the LCM of two co- prime numbers whose product is 323?
(a) 646 (b) 1 (c) 323 (d) 161.5

26. Find the sum of the digits of the smallest 6 digit number divisible by 18, 24 and 25
(a) 12 (b) 9 (c) 10 (d) 15

27. Find the largest three digit number divisible by 3,12,24 and 36.
(a) 984 (b) 936 (c) 900 (d) 924

28. What is the least number which is exactly divisible by 12, 15, 18 and 27?.
(a) 540 (b) 740 (c) 680 (d) 508

29. If a natural number when divided by 4, 5 and 6 leaves a remainder 3 in each case,
then what will be the smallest three digit natural number?
(a)113 (b)123 (c)117 (d)129
30. Which greatest number will divide 3026 and 5053 leaving remainders 11 and 13
respectively?
(a) 19 (b) 30 (c) 17 (d) 45

32. What is the greatest number that will be divided by 52 and 104 leaving remainder 4
and 8 respectively?
(a) 16 (b) 26 (c) 48 (d) 12

33. Traffic light at three different crossing change after 30 seconds, 40 seconds and 60
seconds respectively. How many times will they change together is 30 minutes?
(a) 13 (b) 15 (c) 18 (d) 19

34. Find the maximum number of student among when 1003 chocolates and 2703
candies can be distributed such that each student gets equal number of each (chocolate
and candy)?
(a)19 (b)29 (c)17 (d)33

35. There are 44 mangoes,121 bananas, and 11 apples. They are to be arranged in
several rows in such a way that each rows contains the same number of fruits and each
row contains one type of fruits .what is the minimum number?
(a)16 (b)15 (c)13 (d)14

36. Find the H.C.F. of 42, 63 and 140?

(a) 14 (b) 9 (c) 21 (d) 7

37. Find the H.C.F. of a2 b4 c6, b3 c8 a4, a8 b6 c2?

(a) a4b4c4 (b) a2b2c2 (c) a2b3c2 (d) a2b3c3

38. Find the H.C.F. of 63 . 0 1.05 and 2.1?

(a) 0.21 (b) 0.021 (c) 21 (d) 2.1

2 8 64 10
39. Find the H.C.F. of 3 , 9 , 81 , 27 ?
 2 2 160 160
(a) 3 (b) 81 (c) 3 (d) 81

1 5 2 4
40. Find the L.C.M. of 3 , 6 , 9 , 27 ?
1 10 20 40
(a) 54 (b) 27 (c) 3 (d) 27

41. The maximum number of students among them 1001 pens and 910 pencils can be
distributed in such a way that each student gets the same number of pens and same
number of pens and same number of pencils is?
(a) 91 (b) 910 (c) 1001 (d) 1911

42.Find the greatest possible length of a scale that can be used to measure exactly the
following length of cloth 3m, 5m 10cm and 12m 90cm?
(a) 30 cm (b) 60 cm (c) 10 cm (d) 1290 cm

43.Find the greatest possible length of a scale to measure exactly the following lengths,
20 feet, 13 feet 9 inches, 17 feet, 6 inches and 21feet 3inches?
(a) 1 feet 6 inches (b) 1 feet 3 inches (c) 9 inches (d) 2 feet 4 inches

44. Three containers have the mixture of milk and water. 403 litres, 713 litres and 496
litres respectively. Find the greatest measurement which can measure the mixture?
(a) 1 litre (b) 7 litre (c) 31 litre (d) 41 litre

45.Find the minimum possibel length of scale to measure exactly the following lengths.
64 cm, 80 cm and 96 cm?
(a) 0.96 m (b) 9.60 m (c) 19.20 m (d) 96 m

46.Traffic lights at three different points are changing respectively at 24, 48 and 72
second. If alll the three are changed together at 9 : 10 : 24 hours, then when will the next
changes take place together?
(a) 25 : 12 : 9 hrs. (b) 48 : 10 : 9 hrs. (c) 48 : 12 : 9 hrs. (d) 40 : 12 : 9 hrs

47. 19.The smallest number from which if 7 subtracted, is exactly divisible by 2, 4, 3, 5,

6, 8 and 10 is?
(a) 113 (b) 120 (c) 127 (d) 137

48.The smallest number from which if 8 added is exactly divisible by 10, 12, 15 and 20
is?
(a) 60 (b) 68 (c) 52 (d) 38

49.Which is the smallest number that can be subtracted from 1936 so that on being
divided by 9, 10, 15 the remainder is 7 everytime?
(a) 93 (b) 46 (c) 76 (d) 39

50.The smallest number that will divide 4, 6, 8, 12 and 16 leaving a remainder 2 in each
case is?
(a) 46 (b) 50 (c) 48 (d) 56

51.Find the greatest number that will divide 187, 233 and 279 so as to leave the same
remainder in each case?
(a) 30 (b) 36 (c) 46 (d) 56

52.The numbers 2272 and 875 divided by a three digit number N, giving the same
reaminder. The sum of the digits of N is?
(a) 13 (b) 10 (c) 14 (d) 11

53. The numbers 1305, 4665 and 6905 divided by a four digit number N, giving the
same remainder. The sum of the digits of N is?
(a) 4 (b) 5 (c) 6 (d) 8

54.The greatest number which can divide 110 and 128 leaving the same remainder 2 in
each case, is?
(a) 8 (b) 18 (c) 28 (d) 38

55.The greatest number which can dividing 122 and 243 leaves remainders 2 and 3
respectively, is?
(a) 12 (b) 24 (c) 30 (d) 120
56.The greatest number which on dividing 989 and 1327 leaves remainders 5 and 7
respectively, is?
(a) 8 (b) 53 (c) 24 (d) 32

57.The least number, which when divided by 12, 15 and 16 leaves 7, 10 and 11 as
remainders respectively, is?
(a) 115 (b) 235 (c) 247 (d) 475

58.The least number, which when divided by 5, 6, 7 and 8 leaves a remainders 3, but
divided by 9 leaves no remainder, is?
(a) 1677 (b) 1683 (c) 2523 (d) 3363

59.The least number, which when divided by 20, 25, 35 and 40 leaves remainder 14, 19,
29 and 34 respectively, is?
(a) 1400 (b) 1394 (c) 1406 (d) 1388

60.Find the largest number of five digits exactly divisible by 12, 16, 18, 24, 32?
(a) 99936 (b) 99963 (c) 99972 (d) 99982

61.Find the smallest number of five digits exactly divisible by 16, 24, 36 and 54?
(a) 10432 (b) 10368 (c) 10064 (d) 10054

62. The LCM of two numbers is 1296 and HCF is 96. If one of the numbers is 864 then
the other is?
(a) 72 (b) 64 (c) 144 (d) 36

63.The H.C.F. of two numbers is 11 and their LCM is 7700. If one of the number is 275,
then the other is?
(a) 279 (b)283 (c) 308 (d) 318

64.The L.C.M of two numbers is 495 and their H.C.F is 5. If the sum of the number is
100, then their difference is?
(a) 10 (b) 46 (c) 70 (d) 90
65.The product of the L.C.M and H.C.F of two numbers is 24. The difference of two
numbers is 2. Find the numbers?
(a) 2 and 4 (b) 6 and 4 (c) 8 and 6 (d) 8 and 10

66.The L.C.M of two numbers is 45 times their H.C.F. If one of the numbers is 125 and
the sum of H.C.F and L.C. M is 1150, the other number is?
(a) 215 (b) 220 (c) 225 (d) 235

67.Product of two co-prime numbers is 117. Their L.C.M should be?

(a) 1 (b) 117 (c) equal to HCF (d) cannot bo calculated

68.The L.C.M of three different numbers is 120. Which of the following cannot be their
HCF?
(a) 8 (b) 12 (c) 24 (d) 35

69. The H.C.F. of two numbers is 8. Which one the following can never be their LCM?
(a) 24 (b) 48 (c) 56 (d) 60

70. The sum of two numbers is 36 and their HCF is 4. How many number of pairs may
be possible?
(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 4