You do a factor tree
80
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2 40
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4 10
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2 2 2 5
Circle all prime numbers (bold) and then list different combinations of those to find them. Like 2 x 2, 2 x 5 and then go on to 2 x 2 x 2, 2 x 2 x 5 etc. and those answers will each be a factor. 2 x 2 = 4, therefore 4 is a factor of 80.
You find what half of the number is and then you look through all of the numbers and whichever numbers go into that number evenly are factors.
All of them. Different numbers have different numbers of factors.
That depends what number you are trying to find the factors of - all those three numbers are factors of the number 18.
-- List all factors of the first number. -- List all factors of the second number. -- If there are more than two numbers, list all factors of each one. -- Find the set of factors that are on every list. -- Find the greatest factor in the set.
The prime factors of 51 are 3 and 17. Once you add itself and one, you have all the factors. (1,3,17,51)
Explaining how to find all factors pairs of 40 is easy. All you have to do is find which whole numbers 40 can be divided into.
Once all the prime factors of a number have been found, the number of factors the number has and what they are can be found. I'd be finding the prime factors first before finding all the factors of a number, so I'd rather find all the prime factors as it means I can stop before I have to do more work in finding all the factors.
Factoring can be simple. In order to find the factors of a number, a person finds all the numbers that divide into the number evenly.
All factors of a number
The procedure to find all factors of a number are: 1) Separate the number into prime factors. 2) Try out all combinations of those factors.
All of them. Different numbers have different numbers of factors.
That depends what number you are trying to find the factors of - all those three numbers are factors of the number 18.
1,3,9 and27
-- List all factors of the first number. -- List all factors of the second number. -- If there are more than two numbers, list all factors of each one. -- Find the set of factors that are on every list. -- Find the greatest factor in the set.
1,2,7,8,28,56
factor tree
No, but factors can.
List all the factors. Select the ones that are prime numbers.