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.1 Common Multiples and Common Factors

Idli-Vada Game
Children sit in a circle and play a game of numbers.
One of the children starts by saying 1. The second
player says 2', and so on. But when it is the turn of 3, 6,
9, ... (multiples of 3), the player should say 'idli instead
of the number. When it is the turn of 5,10, ...(multiples
of 5), the player should say 'vada' instead of the number.
When a number is both a multiple of 3 and a multiple
of 5, the player should say 'idli-vada'! If a player makes
any mistake, they are out.
The game continues in rounds till only one person
remains.
For which numbers should the players say idli
instead of saying the number? These would be 3, 6, 9,
12, 18, .. and so on.
For which numbers should the players say vada?
These would be 5, 10, 20, ... and so on.
Which is the rst number for which the players
should say, ʻidli-vada? It is 15, which is a multiple of 3,
and also a multiple of 5. Find out other such numbers
that are multiples of both 3 and 5. These numbers are
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Idli-Vada Game
Children sit in a circle and play a game of numbers.
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One of the children starts by saying 1. The second
player says 2, and so on. But when it is the turn of 3, 6,
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9, ... (multiples of 3), the player should say idli' instead
of the number. When it is the turn of5, 10,.. (multiples
of 5), the player should say 'vada' instead of the number
When a number is both a multiple of 3 and a multiple
of 5, the player shouldsay'idli-vada'! If a playermakes
any mistake, they are out.
The game continues in rounds till only one person
remains.
For which numbers should the players say idli'
instead of saying the number? These would be 3, 6, 9,
12, 18, .. and so on.
For which numbers should the players say vada"?
These would be 5, 10, 20, ... and so on.
Which is the rst number for which the players
should say, idli-vada'? It is 15, which is a multiple of 3,
and also a multiple of 5. Find out other such numbers
that are multiples of both 3 and 5. These numbers are
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Ö Figure it Out
1. At what number is idli-vada' said for the 10th time?
2. If the game is played for the numbers 1 to 90, nd out:
a. How many times would the children say "idli (including the
times they say idli-vada)?
b. How many times would the children say vada' (including the
times they say idli-vada)?
C. How many times would the children say 'idli-vada"?
3. What if the game was played till Multiples Multiples
900? How would your answers of 3 of 5

change?
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4. Is this gure somehow related to 21
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the idli-vada' game? 3
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Hint: Imagine playing the gam 9 15 25
till 30. Draw the gure if 12
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the game is played till 60.
Common multiples
O Let us now play the 'idli-vada' game of 3 and 5
with different pairs ofnumbers: Fig. 5.1
a. 2 and 5,
b. 3 and 7,
C. 4 and 6.
We will say ʻidli for multiples of the smaller number, vada' for
multiples of the larger number and 'idli-vada' for commonmultiples.
Draw a gure similar to Fig. 5.1 if the game is played up to 60.

Yesterday, we played this game

with two numbers. We ended
up sayingjust 'idli' or 'idli-vada' Oh, what could
and nobody said just 'vada'! those numbers be!?

One of the numbers

was 4.

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Ö Which of the following could be the other number:

2, 3, 5, 8, 10?

Jump Jackpot
Jumpy and Grumpy play a game.
Grumpy places a treasure on some number. For example, he
may place it on 24.
Jumpy chooses a jump size. If he chooses 4, then he has to
jump only on multiples of 4, starting at 0.
Jumpy gets the treasure if he lands on the number where
Grumpy placed it.
Which jump sizes will get Jumpy to land on 24?
If he chooses 4: Jumpy lands on 4 8 12 16 20 24 28 ...
Other successful jump sizes are 2, 3, 6, 8 and 12.

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10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

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What about the jump of sizes 1 and 24? Yes, they also will land
on 24.
The numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 24 all divide 24 exactly. Recall that
such numbers are called factors or divisors of 24.
Grumpy increases the level of the game. Two treasures are kept
on two different numbers. Jumpy has to choose a jump size and stick
to it. Jumpy gets the treasures only if he lands on both the numbers
with the chosen jump size. As before, Jumpy starts at 0.
Grumpy has kept the treasures on 14 and 36. And, Jumpy chooses
a jump size of 7.
Will Jumpy land on both the treasures? Starting from 0, he jumps
to 7 14 21 28 35 42 ... We see that he landed on 14 but

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did not land on 36, so he does not get the treasure. What jump size
should he have chosen?
The factors of 14 are: 1, 2, 7, 14. So, these jump sizes will land on 14.
The factors of 36 are: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 12, 18 and 36. These jump sizes
will land on 36.
So, the jump sizes of 1 or 2 will land on both 14 and 36. Notice that
1 and 2 are the common factors of 14 and 36.
The jump sizes using which both the treasures can be reached are
the common factors of the twO numbers where the treasures are
placed.

O What jump size can reach both 15 and 30? There are multiple
jump sizes possible. Try to nd them all.
Look at the table below. What do you notice?

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|333435 36) 3738 39 (40

41 42 43 (44) 45 46 47 (48) 49 50

51 (52) 53 54 55 S6) 57 58 59 (60)

61 62 63 6) 65 66 67 (68) 69 70

In the talble,
1. Is there anything common among the shaded
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2. Is there anything common among the circled
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numbers?
3. Which numbers are both shaded and circled? What
are these numbers called?
O Figure it Out
1. Find all multiples of 40 that lie between 310 and 410.

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2. Who am I?
a. I am a number less than 40. One of my factors is 7.
The sum of my digits is 8.
b. I am a number less than 100. Two of my factors are 3 and 5.
One of my digits is 1 more than the other.
3. A number for which the sum of all its factors is equal to twice the
number is called a perfect number. The number 28 is a perfect
number. Its factors are 1, 2, 4, 7, 14 and 28. Their sum is 56 which
is twice 28. Find a perfect number between 1 and 10.
4. Find the common factors of:
a. 20 and 28 b. 35 and 50
C. 4, 8 and 12 d. 5, 15 and 25
5. Find any three numbers that are multiples of 25 but not multiples
of 50.
6. Anshu and his friends play the idli-vada' game with two numbers,
which are both smaller than 10. The rst time anybody says idli-
vada is after the number 50. What could the two numbers be
which are assigned idli' and vada"?
7. In the treasure hunting game, Grumpy has kept treasures on 28
and 70. What jump sizes will land on both the numbers?
8. In the diagram below, Guna has erased all the numbers except
the common multiples. Find out what those numbers could be Math
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and ll in the missing numbers in the empty regions.
Multiples of Multiplesof.

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Common multiples

9 Find the smallest number that is a multiple of all the numbers

from 1 to 10, except for 7. This
10. Find the smallest number that isa multiple of all the numbers
from 1 to 10.

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5.2 Prime Numbers

Guna and Anshu want to pack gs (anjeer) that grow in their farm.
Guna wants to put 12 gs in each box and Anshu wants to put 7 gs
in each box.
How many arrangementS are possible?
Think and nd out the different wayshow-
1.Guna can arrange 12 gs in a rectangular manner.
2. Anshu can arrange 7 gs in a rectangular manner.
Guna has listed out these possibilities.
Observe the number of rows and
columnsin each ofthe arrangements.
How are they related to 12?
In the second arrangement, for
example, 12 gs are arranged in two
columns of 6 each or 12 = 2 x 6.
Anshu could make only one
arrangement: 7 x 1 or 1 x7. There are
no other rectangular arrangements
possible.
In each of Guna's arrangement
multiplying the number of rows by
the number of columns gives the
number 12. So, the number of rows
or columns are factors of 12.
We saw that the number 12 can be arranged in a rectangle in
more than one way as 12 has more than two factors. The number7
can be arranged in only one way, as it has only two factors-1 and 7.
Numbers that have only two factors are called prime numbers or
primes. Here are the rst few primes-2,3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19. Notice
that the factors of a prime number are 1 and the number itself.
What about numbers that have more than two factors? They
called composite numbers. The rst few composite numbers
are-4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20.

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What about 1, which has only one factor? The number 1 is neither
a prime nor a composite number.
O How many prime numbers are there from 21 to 30? How many
composite numbers are there from 21 to 30?
Canwe list all the prime numbers from 1 to 100?
Here is an interesting way to nd prime numbers. Just follow the
steps given beloW and see what happens.
Step 1: Cross out 1 because it is neither prime nor composite.
Step 2: Circle 2, and then cross
outall multiples of 2 after that, KOOXO)<OXX
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N ie, 4, 6, 8, and so on.
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Step 3: You will nd that the
nextuncrossednumber is 3. D XA
Circle 3 and then cross out all
the multiples of 3 after that,
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ie, 6,9, 12, and so on.
Step 4: The nextuncrossed D
number is 5. Circle 5 and then
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cross out all the multiples of 5
afterthat,i.e.,10,15,20,and 21| R 94 D a
SO on.
Step5: Continue this process till all the numbers in the list are either
circled or crossed out.
All the circled numbers are prime It is de nitely not some
magic; there should be a
numbers. All the crossed out numbers, reason why it works.
other than 1, are composite numbers. This
method is called the Sieve of Eratosthenes.
This procedure can be carried on
for numbers greater than 100 also.
Eratosthenes was a Greek mathematician
who lived around 2200 years ago and
developedthís method of listing primes.

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Guna and Anshu started wondering how this simple method isable
to nd prime numbers! Think how this method works. Read thesteps
given above again and see what happens after each step is carried out.

Figureit Out
1. We see that 2 is a prime and also an even number. Is there any
other even prime?
2. Look at the list of primes till 100. What is the smallest difference
between two successive primes? What is the largest difference?
3. Are there an equal number of primes occurring in every row in the

table on the previous page? Which decades have the least number
of primes? Which have the most number of primes?

Primes through the Ages

Prime numbers are the building blocks of all whole numbers. Starting
from the time of the Greek civilisation (more than 2000 years ago) to i
this day,mathematicians are still struggling to uncover their secrets!
Food for thought: is there a largest prime number? Or does the i
:list of prime numbers go on without an end? A mathematician named ;
i Euclid found theanswerandso will you in a laterclass!
Fun fact: The largest prime number that anyone has ʻwritten down'
is so large that it would take around 6500 pages to write it! So they
could only write it on a computer!

4. Which of the following numbers are prime: 23, 51, 37, 26?
5. Write three pairs of prime numbers less than 20 whose sum is a
multiple of5.
6. The numbers 13 and 31 are prime numbers. Both these numbers have
same digits 1 and 3. Find such pairs of prime numbers up to 100.
7. Find seven consecutive composite numbers between 1 and 100.
8. Twin primes are pairs of primes having a difference of 2. For
example, 3 and 5 are twin primes. So are 17 and 19. Find the other
twin primes between1 and 100.

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9. Identify whether each statement is true or false. Explain.

a There is no prime number whose units digit is 4.
b. A product of primes can also be prime.
C. Prime numbers do not have any factors.
d All even numbers are composite numbers.
e. 2 is a prime and so is the next number, 3. For every other
prime, the next number is composite.
10. Which of the following numbers is the product of exactly three
distinct prime numbers: 45, 60, 91, 105, 330?
11. How many three-digit prime numbers can you make using each
of 2, 4 and 5 once?
12. Observe that 3 is a prime number, and 2 x 3 +1=7 is also a prime.
Are there other primes for which doubling and adding 1 gives
another prime? Find at least ve such examples.

5.3 Co-prime Numbers for Safekeeping Treasures

Which pairs are safe?
Let us go back to the treasure nding game. This time, treasures are
kept on two numbers. Jumpy gets the treasures only if he is able to
reach both the numbers with the same jump size. There is also a
new rule-a jump size of 1 is not allowed.
Where should Grumpy place the treasures so that Jumpy cannot
reach both the treasures?
Will placing the treasure on 12 and 26 work? No! If the jump size
İs chosen to be 2, then Jumpy will reach both 12 and 26.
What about 4 and 9? Jumpy cannot reach both using any jump size
other than 1. So, Grumpy knows that the pair 4 and 9 is safe.
Check if these pairs are safe:
a. 15 and 39 b. 4 and 15
C. 18 and 29 d. 20 and 55

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What is special about safe pairs? They don't have any common
factor other than 1. Two numbers are said to be co-prime to each
other if they have no common factor other than 1.
Example: As 15 and 39 have 3 as a common factor, they are not
co-primne. But 4 and 9 are co-prime.
Which of the following pairs of numbers are co-prime?
a. 18 and 35 b. 15 and 37 c. 30 and 415
d. 17 and 69 e. 81 and 18

While playing the 'idli-vada'game with different number

pairs, Anshu observed something interesting! Math
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1. Sometimes the rst common multiple was the same
as the product of the two numbers.
2. At other times the rst common multiple was less
than the product of the two numbers.
Find examples for each of the above. How is it related to the
umber pair being co-prime?
Co-prime art
O Observe the following thread art. The rst diagram has 12
pegs and the thread is tied to every fourth peg (we say that Math
the thread-gap is 4). The second diagram has 13 pegs and the Talk
thread-gap is 3. What about the other diagrams? Observe these I

pictures, share and discuss your ndings in class.

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8 1413 1211120

In some diagrams, the thread is tied to every peg. In some, it is

not. Is it related to the two numbers (the number of pegs and the
thread-gap) being co-prime?

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Make such pictures for the following:

a. 15 pegs, thread-gap of 10 b. 10 pegs, thread-gap of 7
c. 14 pegs, thread-gap of 6 d. 8 pegs, thread-gap of 3

5.4 Prime Factorisation

Checking if two numbers are co-prime
Teacher: Are 56 and 63 co-prime?
Anshu and Guna: If they have a common factor other than 1, then
they are not co-prime. Let us check.
Anshu: I can write 56 = 14 x 4 and 63 = 21 x3. So, 14 and 4
are factors, of 56. Further, 21 and 3 are factors of
63. So, there are no common factors. The numbers
are co-prime.
Guna: Hold on. I can also write 56 =7 x 8 and 63 =9x 7.
We see that 7 is a factor of both numbers, so, they
are not co-prime.
Clearly Guna is right, as 7 is a common factor.
O But where did Anshu go wrong?
Writing 56 =14 x 4 tells us that 14 and 4 are both factors of 56, but it
does not tell all the factors of 56. The same holds for the factors of 63.
Try another example: 80 and 63. There are many ways to factorise
both numbers.
80 = 40 x 2= 20 x 4= 10 x 8 = 16 x 5=???
63 =9 x 7=3x 21 =???
We have written ??? to say that there may be more ways to
factorisethese numbers. But if we take any of the given factorisations,
for example,80 16 x 5 and 63 = 9 x 7, then there are no common
factors. Can we conclude that 80 and 63 are co-prime? As Anshu's
mistake above shows, we cannot conclude that as there may be other
ways to factorise the numbers.
What this means is that we need a more systematic approach to
check if two numbers are co-prime.

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Prime factorisation
Take a number such as 56. It is composite, as we saw that it can be
written as 56 = 4 x 14. So, both 4 and 14 are factors of 56. Now take one
of these, say 14. It is also composite and can be written as 14 = 2 x 7.
Therefore, 56 = 4 x 2 x 7. Now, 4 is composite and can be written as
4=2 x 2. Therefore, 56 = 2 x 2 * 2 x 7. All the factors appearing here, 2
and 7, are prime numbers. So, we cannot divide them further.
In conclusion, we have written 56 as a product of prime numbers.
This is called prime factorisation of 56. The individual factors are
called prime factors. For example, the prime factors of 56 are 2 and7.
Every number greater than 1 has a prime factorisation. The idea
is the same: keep breaking the composite numbers into factors till
only primes are left.
The number 1 does not have any prime factorisation. It is not
divisible by any prime number.
What is the prime factorisation of a prime number like 7? It is just
7 (we cannot break it down any further).
Let us see a few more examples.
By going through different ways of breaking down the number,
we wrote 63 as 3 x 3 x 7 and as 3 x 7 x 3. Are they different? Not
really! The same prime numbers 3 and 7 occur in both cases. Further,
3 appears two times in
both and 7 appears once.
Here, you see four
different ways to get
|2x18 3x12 4x9 6x6
prime factorisation of 36. |2×2x9 3:3x42x2×92×3×6
Observe that in all four 2×2x3x33x3x2x22×2×3:3|2×3:2×3
cases, we get two 2s and
2x2x3×3 2×3×2×3
two 3s.
Multiply back to see
that you get 36 in all four cases.
For any number, it is a remarkable fact that there is only one prime
factorisation, except that the prime factors may come in different

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orders. As we explain below, the order is not important. However,

as we saw in these examples, there are many ways to arrive at the
přime factorisation!

Doesthe order matter?

Using this diagram,

can you explain why 30 = 2 x3 x5, no matter which way you multiply
2, 3, and 5?
When multiplying numbers, we can do so in any order. The
end result is the same. That is why, when two 2s and two 3s are
multiplied in any order, we get 36. In a later class, we shall study
this under the names of commutativity and associativity of
multiplication.
Thus, the order does not matter. Usually we write the prime
numbers in increasing order. For example, 225 =3 x3 x5 x 5 or 30 =
2x3 x5.
Prime factorisation of a product of two numbers
When we nd the prime factorisation of a number, we rst write
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it as a product of two factors. For example, 72 = 12 x 6. Then, we

nd the prime factorisation of each of the factors. In the above example,
12=2x2x3and 6=2 x3. Now, can yousay what the prime factorisation
of 72 is?
The prime factorisation of the original number is obtained by
putting these together.
72 =2 x 2 x 3 x 2 x 3

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We can also write this as 2 x 2 x 2 x3 x3. Multiply and check that

you get 72 back!
Observe how many times each prime factor occurs in the
factorisation of 72.
Compare it with how many times it occurs in the factorisations of
12 and 6 put together.

Figure itOut
1. Find the prime factorisations of the following numbers: 64, 104,
105, 243, 320, 141, 1728, 729, 1024, 1331, 1000.
2. The prime factorisation ofa number has one 2, two 3s, and one
11. What is the number?
3. Find three prime numbers, all less than 30, whose product is 1955.
4. Findthe prime factorisationofthesenumbers without multiplying
rst
a. 56 x 25 b. 108 x 75 C. 1000 x 81
5. What is the smallest number whose prime factorisation has:
a. three different prime numbers?
b. four different prime numbers?
Prime factorisation is of fundamental importance in the study of
numbers. Let us discuss two ways in which it can be useful.

Using prime factorisation tocheckif two numbers areco-prime

Let us again take the numbers 56 and 63. How can we check if they
are co-prime? We can use the prime factorisation of both numbers-
56 = 2 x 2 x 2 x7 and 63 = 3x3 x 7
Now, we see that 7 is a prime factor of 56 as well as 63. Therefore,
56 and 63 are not co-prime.
What about 80 and 63? Their prime factorisations are as follows:
80 = 2 x 2 x 2x 2 x 5 and 63=3 x 3 x 7

There are no common prime factors. Can we conclude that they

are co-prime? Suppose they have a common factor that is composite.
Would the prime factors of this composite common factor appear in
the prime factorisation of 80 and 63?

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Therefore, we can say that if there are no common prime factors,

then the two numbers are c0-prime.
Let us see some examples.

Example: Consider 40 and 231. Their prime factorisations are as

follows:
40 = 2 x 2 x 2 x5 and 231 = 3 x 7x 11
We see that there are no common primes that divide both 40 and
4 231. Indeed, the prime factors of 40 are 2 and 5 while, the prime
factors of 231 are 3, 7, and 11. Therefore, 40 and 231 are co-prime!

Example: Consider 242 and 195. Their prime factorisations are as

follows:
242 = 2 x 11 x 11 and 195 =3 x 5 x 13
The prime factors of 242 are 2 and 11. The prime factors of 195
are 3, 5, and 13. There are no common prime factors. Therefore, 242
and 195 are co-prime.

Usingprime factorisation to check if one number is divisible

by another
We can say that if one number is divisible by another, the prime
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factorisation of the second number is included in the prime
factorisation of the rst number.
We say that 48 is divisible byy12 because when we divide 48 by 12,
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the remainder is zero. How can we check if one number is divisible
by another without carrying out long division?
Example: Is 168 divisible by 12? Find the prime factorisations of both:
168 = 2 x 2 x 2 x 3 x 7 and 12 = 2 x 2 x3
fore

Since we can multiply in any order, now it is clear that,

168 = 2 x 2 x 3 x 2x7= 12 x 14
Therefore, 168 is divisible by 12.
Example: Is 75 divisible by 21? Find the prime factorisations of both:
75 =3x 5 x 5 and 21 = 3 x7

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As we saw in the discussion above, if 75 was a multiple of 21, then

all prime factors of 21 would also be prime factors of 75. However, 7
is a prime factor of 21 but not a prime factor of 75. Therefore, 75 is
not divisible by 21.
Example: Is 42 divisible by 12? Find the prime factorisations of both:
42 =2 x 3 x7 and 12 = 2 x 2 x3
All prime factors of 12 are also prime factors of 42. But the prime
factorisation of 12 is not included in the prime factorisation of 42.
This is because 2 occurs twice in the prime factorisation of 12 but
only once in the prime factorisation of 42. This means that 42 is not
divisible by 12.
We can say that if one number is divisible by another, then the
prime factorisation of the second number is included in the prime
factorisation of the rst number.

Figure it Out
1. Are the following pairs of numbers co-prime? Guess rst and
then use prime factorisation to verify your answer.
30 and 45 b. 57 and 85
C. 121 and 1331 d. 343 and 216
2. Isthe rstnumber divisible bythesecond?Use prime factorisation.
a. 225 and 27 b. 96 and 24
C. 343 and 17 d. 999 and 99
3. The rst number has prime factorisation 2 x 3 x 7 and the second
number has prime factorisation 3 x 7 x 11. Are they co-prime?
Does one of them divide the other?
4 Guna says, "Any two prime numbers are co-prime?". Is he right?

5.5 Divisibility Tests

Sofar, we havebeen nding factors of numbers in different contexts,
including to determine if a number is prime or not, or if a given pair
of numbers is co-prime or not.

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It is easy to nd factors of small numbers. How do we nd factors

of a large number?
Let us take 8560. Does it have any factors from 2 to 10 (2, 3, 4,
5, .., 9, 10)?
It is easy to check if some of these numbers are factors or not
without doing long division. Can you nd them?
Divisibility by 10
Let us take 10. Is 8560 divisible by 10? This is another way of
asking if 10 is a factor of 8560.
For this, we can look at the pattern in the multiples of 10.
The rst few multiples of 10 are: 10, 20, 30, 40, ... Continue this
sequence and observe the pattern.
Is 125 a multiple of 10? Will this number appear in the previous
sequence?Why or why not?
Can you now answer if 8560 is divisible by 10?
Consider this statement:
Numbers that are divisible by 10 are those that end with (Math
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0. Do you agree?
Divisibility by 5
The number 5 is another number whose divisibility can easily be
checked. How do we do it?
Explore by listing down the multiples: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, .. What do you
observe about these numbers? Do you see a pattern in the last digit?
What is the largest number less than 399 that is divisible by 5? Is
8560 divisible by S?
O Consider this statement:
Numbers that are divisible by5 are those that end with Moth
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either a 0' or a '5'. Do you agree?

Divisibility by 2
The rst few multiples of 2 are 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20,
What do you observe? Do you see a pattern in the last digit?

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Is 682 divisible by 2? Can we answer this without doing the long

division?
Is 8560 divisible by 2? Why or why not?

ö Considerthisstatement:
Numbers that are divisible by 2 are those that end with '0',
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2', '4, '6 or 8. Do youagree? Talk
What are all the multiples of 2 between 399 and 411?

Divisibility by 4
Checking if a number is divisible by 4 can also be done easily!
Look at its multiples: 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, •.
Are you able to observe any patterns that can be used? The
multiples of 10, 5 and 2 have a pattern in their last digits which we
are able to use to check for divisibility. Similarly, can we check if a
number is divisible by 4 by looking at the last digit?
It does not work! Look at 12 and 22.They have the same last digit,
but 12 is a multiple of 4 while 22 is not. Similarly 14 and 24 have the
same last digit, but 14 is not a multiple of 4 while 24 is. Similarly, 16
and 26 or 18 and 28. What this means is that by looking at the last
digit, we cannot tell whether a number is a multiple of 4.
Can we answer the question by looking at more digits? Make a list
of multiples of 4 between 1 and 200 and search for a pattern.
O Find numbers between 330 and 340 that are divisible by 4.Also,
nd numbers between 1730 and 1740, and 2030 and 2040, that are
divisible by 4. What do you observe?

Is 8536divisibleby4?
6 Considerthesestatements:
1. Only the last two digits matter when deciding if a given
number is divisible by 4.
2. If the number formed by the last two digits is divisible by 4,
then the original number is divisible by 4.
3. If the original number is divisible by 4, then the number
formed by the last two digits is divisible by 4.
Do you agree? Why or why not?

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Divisibility by 8
Interestingly, even checking for divisibility by 8 can be simpli ed.
Canthe last two digits be used for this?
O Find numbers between 120 and 140 that are divisible by 8. Also
nd numbers between 1120 and 1140, and 3120 and 3140, that are
divisible by 8. What do you observe?
O Changethe last two digits of 8560 so that the resulting number is
a multiple of 8.

Consider these statements:

1. Only the last three digits matter when deciding if a
given number is divisible by 8. Math
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2. Ifthe number formed by the last three digits is divisible
by 8, then the original number is divisible by 8. I

3. Ifthe original number is divisible by 8, then the number

formed by the last three digits is divisible by 8.
Do you agree? Why or why not?
We have seen that long division is not always needed to check if a
numberis a factor or not. We have made use of certain observations
to come up with simple methods for 10, 5, 2, 4, 8. Do we have such
simplemethods for other numbers as well? We will discuss simple
methods to test divisibility by 3, 6, 7, and 9 in later cla

Figure it Out
1. 2024 is a leap year (as February has 29 days). Leap years occur in
the years that are multiples of 4, except for those years that are
evenly divisible by 100 but not 400.
a. From the year you were born till now, which years were leap
years?
b. From the year 2024 till 2099, how many leap years are there?
2. Find the largest and smallest 4-digit numbers that are divisible by
4 and are also palindromes.
3. Explore and nd out if each statement is always true, sometimes
true or never true. You can give examples to support your reasoning.

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a. Sum of two even numbers gives a multiple of 4.

b. Sum of two odd numbers gives a multiple of 4.
4. Find the remainders obtained when each of the following
numbers are divided by a) 10, b) 5, c) 2.
78, 99, 173, 572, 980, 1111, 2345
5. The teacher asked if 14560 is divisible by all of 2, 4, 5, 8 and
10. Guna checked for divisibility of 14560 by only two of these
numbers and then declared that it was also divisible by all of
them. What could those two numbers be?
6. Which of the following numbers are divisible by all of 2, 4, 5, 8
and 10: 572, 2352, 5600, 6000, 77622160.
7. Write twO numbers whose product is 10000. The two numbers
should not have 0 as the units digit.

5.6 Fun with Numbers

Special numbers
There are four numbers in this box. Which number looks special to
you? Why do you say so?

16

25 43

Look at the what Guna's classmates have to share:

Karnawati says, "9 is special because it is a single-digit
number whereas all the other numbers are 2-digit numbers".
Gurupreet says, "9 is special because it is the only number
that is a multiple of 3".
Murugan says, "16 is special because it is the only even
number and also the only multiple of 4".
Gopika says, “25 is special as it is the only multiple of 5
Yadnyikee says, "43 is special because it is the only prime
number".
Radha says, "43 is special because it is the only number that
is not a square".

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O Below are some boxes with four numbers in each box.

Within each box try to say how each number is special
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compared to the rest. Share with your classmates and nd
out who else gave the same reasons as you did. Did anyone I

give different reasons that may not have occurred to you?!

5 7 3 27 3 17 27

12 35 11 24 123 31 44 65

A prime puzzle
The gure on the left shows the puzzle. The gure on the right
shows the solution of the puzzle. Think what the rules can be to (Math
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solve the puzzle.

75 5 5 3 75

42 2 3 7 42

102 17 2 3 102

170 30 63 170 3063

Rules
Fill the grid with prime numbers only so that the product of each row
is the number to the right of the row and the product of each column
is the number below the column.

105

20 105

30 70

28 125 18 30 70 28

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63 343

27 660

190 44

45 42 171 28 154 231

SUMMARY
Ifanumber is divisible by another, the second number is called a factor
of the rst. For example, 4 isa factor of 12 because 12 is divisible by4
(12 +4= 3).
Prime numbers are numbers like 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, ... that have only two
factors, namely 1 and themselves.
Composite numbers are numbers like 4, 6, 8, 9, ... that have more
than 2 factors, i.e., at least one factor other than 1 and themselves. For
example, 8 has the factor 4 and 9 has the factor 3, so & and 9 are both
composite.
Every number greater than 1 can be written as a product of prime
numbers. This is called the number's prime factorisation. For example,
84=2x 2 x3x7.
There is only one way to factorise a number into primes, except for
the ordering of the factors.
Two numbers that do not have a common factor other than 1 are said
to be co-prime.
To check if two numbers are co-prime, we can rst nd their prime
factorisations and check if there is a common prime factor. If there isno
common prime factor, they are co-prime, and otherwise they are not.
A number is a factor of another number if the prime factorisation of
the rst number is included in the prime factorisation of the second
number.

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