In the prime factorisation of the number, each factor must appear an even number of times.In the prime factorisation of the number, each factor must appear an even number of times.In the prime factorisation of the number, each factor must appear an even number of times.In the prime factorisation of the number, each factor must appear an even number of times.
2 cannot be a factor of an odd number, 2 must be a factor of an even number.
Even.
Assuming the second even number is equal to 4 or greater, than the highest common factor of the two numbers is equal to an even number 2 or greater. Why can't an odd factor be used? Any odd factor must be multiplied by (at least) 2 to create an even product (ie. the 1st even number). That same odd factor must be multiplied by (at least 2) and any other number to create a 2nd even product, thereby making the Greatest Common Factor (at least) 2 times the odd number....which is an even number.
It's an even number so 2 must be a factor. Try dividing 86 by 2...
An even number is any number that has '2' as a factor.When you multiply two numbers, you multiply all the factors of both of them.If '2' was a factor of either number, or of both, then it's a factor of their product,and the product must therefore be an even number.
The GCF of an odd and an even number must be odd since odd numbers do not have any even factors.
No. The opposite is true: the gcf of an odd number and an even number is always odd. All the factors of an odd number are odd; or to put it another way: If a number has an even factor, the number itself must be even. Thus the only common factors between odd and even numbers must be odd.
It's an even number so 2 must be a factor so it is composite.
60 is an even number and also a factor of itself
An odd factor is a number that cannot be divided by 2. if it can be divided by 2 it is an even factor or even number.
Yes. Every even number has a factor of 2.