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Class 6 Mathematics · Ganita Prakash · Chapter 5

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Summary

This chapter develops factors, multiples and prime numbers through games. The idli-vada game introduces common multiples of two numbers, and treasure-hunting jumps introduce common factors and divisors. A prime number has exactly two factors \u2014 1 and itself \u2014 so the first primes are \(2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, \dots\); numbers with more than two factors are composite, and 1 is neither prime nor composite. The Sieve of Eratosthenes is used to list all primes up to 100. Two numbers are co-prime if their only common factor is 1, for example 4 and 9. The chapter introduces prime factorisation: every number greater than 1 can be written as a product of primes in only one way apart from order, e.g. \(56 = 2 \times 2 \times 2 \times 7\). Prime factorisation is then used to test whether two numbers are co-prime and whether one number divides another. Finally, simple divisibility tests for 10, 5, 2, 4 and 8 are derived by looking at the last one, two or three digits. The chapter also explores perfect numbers, twin primes and prime puzzles.

Common Multiples and Common FactorsPrime and Composite NumbersSieve of EratosthenesCo-prime NumbersPrime FactorisationDivisibility Tests

Key terms

Factor
A number that divides another number exactly, leaving no remainder; e.g. 4 is a factor of 12.
Multiple
The product of a number with a counting number; e.g. 12, 24, 36 are multiples of 12.
Prime number
A number with exactly two factors, 1 and itself, such as \(2, 3, 5, 7, 11\).
Composite number
A number with more than two factors, such as \(4, 6, 8, 9, 10\).
Co-prime numbers
Two numbers whose only common factor is 1, such as 4 and 9.
Prime factorisation
Writing a number as a product of prime numbers, e.g. \(84 = 2 \times 2 \times 3 \times 7\).

Extra questions & answers

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Let us now play the ‘idli-vada’ game with different pairs of numbers:

Which of the following could be the other number:

What jump size can reach both 15 and 30? There are multiple jump sizes possible. Try to find them all.

Look at the table below. What do you notice?

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Check if these pairs are safe:

Which of the following pairs of numbers are co-prime?

While playing the ‘idli-vada’ game with different number pairs, Anshu observed something interesting!

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A prime number has exactly how many factors?
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