GCF and LCM puzzlesAnswers to 70
Find the two numbers. Show how you worked them out.
An ordinary GCF question can be started the moment it is read. This one cannot: you are given the greatest common factor, the least common multiple and a range, and no one of those three facts is enough on its own. The arithmetic is the same arithmetic — what changes is that there is something to work out before you can begin.

The answer key prints on a separate page.
Running the question backwards is what makes it a puzzle. Both numbers must be multiples of the GCF, so they are GCF×m and GCF×n; their least common multiple is GCF×m×n, so m and n multiply to LCM ÷ GCF; and m and n can share no factor, or the GCF would have been bigger than the one you were given. That last clause is the whole idea, and it is the step a child has to find rather than recall.
The trap is measured rather than decorated. The pair (GCF, LCM) itself always satisfies both headline facts — the GCF of 5 and 30 really is 5, and their LCM really is 30 — so a reader who treats the range as decoration writes down an answer that is wrong for a reason worth discussing. Every question on the sheet has that trap in it, and the range is always what rules it out.