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How do you find the greatest common factor of 18 and 54 using the sieve of eratosthenes?

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By finding all the factors of the numbers and see which one is the biggest # they have in common. Or look at the Sieve of Eratosthenes table at google.com and there you will find the answer.

or by looking at a sieve of Eratosthenes and crossing out the factors of each number and seeing which two factors are the same but the highest out of them both.

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