Question

The HCF of two co-primes is

Options

• the smaller number

• the larger number

• 1

• none of these

Answer 1

1
H.C.F. of two co-primes is 1.
This is because two co-prime numbers do not have any common factor.
For example, 15 and 16 are co-primes.
Their H.C.F. is 1.