SOLUTION: the product of three numbers is 1100.these numbers have no common factor other than 1.what are these numbers?

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Question 986938: the product of three numbers is 1100.these numbers have no common factor other than 1.what are these numbers?
Found 2 solutions by ikleyn, Edwin McCravy:
Answer by ikleyn(52805) About Me  (Show Source):
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1100 = 4*25*11.

Answer.  These three numbers are  4,  25  and  11  (if to consider only natural  (positive integer)  numbers).


Answer by Edwin McCravy(20060) About Me  (Show Source):
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She blurted out the answer, but there is a little strategy to it:

Break it into prime factors:

1100 = 2*2*5*5*11

Take both 2's as one factor, 2*2=4
Take both 5's as one factor, 5*5=25
Take the 11 as the third factor = 11

1100 = 4*25*11

Bu taking all of each prime factor together, you keep any of the
other factors from having that prime factor in common with it.

Edwin