Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Tiltle: Explianing Factors and the Gcf

Factors of a number are the numbers that can be multiplyed together to get the product. The greatest common factor or the gcf is the greatest possible factor of your two or more given numbers.
Factors can be helpful in the real life when you are at the grocery store and you are trying to findif you can buy 5 cans of soup if the soup is $1.25 and you only have $5 ( the answer is no beacuse you only have $5 and the soup is $1.25 so 5 x 1.25 = $6.25
You would you use the gcf in real life if you had 30 pairs of shoes and 50 pairs of sockswhat is the greatest matching number of socks and shoes using all the shoes and all the socks

( a link about factors) none found
( A link about the gcf) http://www.helpwithfractions.com/greatest-common-factor.html

1 comment:

oroarkclass said...

Good job! I like what you have written! There is one major part missing though. You need to explain how to do the topics you address. How do you find factors and the GCF?