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Using Prime Factorisation Method, determine the LCM of the numbers in each of the following : 108,135,162


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To find the LCM of any Numbers, first we need to find the Prime Factors

2108 3135 2162
254345381
327315327
395539
33 133
1 1
Prime factors of 108 are 2×2×3×3×3 Prime factors of 135 are 3×3×3×5Prime factors of 162 are 2×3×3×3×3
=22×33 =33×5 =2×34

To find the LCM we take all the prime numbers that appear in prime factorisation of all the numbers, and then check for the highest power of those prime numbers, in the LCM we take the highest power of that prime number.

we have 2,3and5 as different prime numbers and the highest power of 2 is 2, 3 is 4 and 5 is 1, so the LCM is 2×2×3×3×3×3×5=1620

Hence the LCM is 1620


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