Most Students fail this HCF question. can you solve it?
Can you solve this HCF question before I do?
The sum of two numbers is 216… and their HCF is 27… find the numbers.
Most students struggle with questions like this—not because it’s hard, but because they don’t know the right method. In this video, I break it down step by step using a simple and reliable approach you can use in exams.
By the end of this lesson, you’ll understand:
How to represent numbers using HCF, why the concept of coprime numbers is important and how to solve HCF + sum questions quickly and accurately.
This type of question appears in: WAEC, NECO, IGCSE and other international math exams.
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Two numbers have an HCF of 12 and their sum is 96… can you find them?
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