a) Find the largest number that is the greatest common divisor of some four different two-digit numbers.
b) Find the largest number that is the least common multiple of some four different two-digit numbers.
a) Find the largest number that is the greatest common divisor of some four different two-digit numbers.
b) Find the largest number that is the least common multiple of some four different two-digit numbers.
a) Let be the greatest common divisor of some four different two-digit numbers. Since all these numbers are divisible by , the least possible candidates of these four numbers are , , , . Hence , thus . On the other hand, the greatest common divisor of , , and is .
b) The numbers , , , and are pairwise relatively prime, hence . To show that this is the largest possible, consider four different two-digit numbers , , , ; assume without loss of generality that . If , then . If , then the four numbers can only be , , , , but .