Micah found the least common multiple of 8 and 12. Multiples of 8 : 8 comma 12 comma 16 comma 20 comma 24 comma 28 comma dot dot dot Multiples of 12 : 12 comma 24 comma 36 comma 48 comma 60 comma dot dot dot The least common multiple is 12 What is Micah’s error?

A multiple of 8 must be 8, 16, 24, 32, and so on. Micah’s list includes 12 and 20, which are not multiples of 8. The least common multiple is 24, the first number that appears in both correct multiple lists. So the error is that Micah listed some values that are not multiples.

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