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Question 827176: The product of 6 natural numbers is 36. What is the least value of their sum .
Answer by CubeyThePenguin(3113)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
36 = 2 * 2 * 3 * 3 * 1 * 1


sum = 2(1 + 2 + 3) = 12

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