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Common factors are numbers that divide evenly into two or more other numbers.

For 12 and 18, the common factors are 1, 2, 3, and 6.

Finding common factors helps with simplifying fractions and solving problems involving ratios.

The greatest common factor is the largest number that divides evenly into all given numbers.

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