SOLUTION: If p is the greatest prime factor of 34 and q is the greatest prime factor of 90, what is the greatest prime factor of the product pq ?

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Question 199000: If p is the greatest prime factor of 34 and q is the greatest prime factor of 90, what is the greatest prime factor of the product pq ?
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20059)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If p is the greatest prime factor of 34 and q is the greatest prime factor of 90, what is the greatest prime factor of the product pq ?


Here's a list of the first dozen prime numbers.

2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37.


>>...p is the greatest prime factor of 34...<<

The largest number in that list of prime numbers 
that will divide evenly into 34 is 17.

So p is 17.

>>...q is the greatest prime factor of 90...<<

The largest number in that list that will divide 
evenly into 90 is 5.

So q is 5.

>>...what is the greatest prime factor of the product pq?...<<

Since pq is 17x5 or 85, and there are only two prime factors of it,
17 and 5, obviously the larger one is 17.

Edwin




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