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Why not HCF of 161 & 325 is 1 ???why is 2???

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Why not HCF of 161 & 325 is 2?why is 1?

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HCF of 161 & 325 is 1 and not 2 due to the fact that there is no matching factors in both of them.

Since in the case there are no matching factors HCF will be 1 as 1 is only common factor in both.