Solution for Section 3.8 Question 1b

1b. Apply the Euclidean Algorithm to 90 and 37.

90

=

37 · 2 + 16

37

=

16 · 2 + 5
16 = 5 · 3 + 1
5 = 1 · 5 + 0

The last non-zero remainder was 1, so gcd(90, 37) = 1. 
Note that when the gcd(a, b) = 1, we say that a and b are "relatively prime", in other words, they have no prime factors in common.

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