Sal explains that the most significant common factor of any number is the largest number divisible into both monomials and not necessarily the number with the most significant value. He breaks down two numbers into their prime factors as a product of their primes, then identifies the GCF of the most significant common factor.

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greatest common factor, number sense, numbers, prime factors

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greatest common factor, number sense, prime factorization, gcf of a monomial, math

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