The process is roughly the same; you're going to break a number down into component parts, but the end results are different.
The factors of 36 are 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 12, 18, 36
The prime factorization of 36 is 2 x 2 x 3 x 3
The prime factorization of 72 is 2 x 2 x 2 x 3 x 3 The prime factors of 72 are 2 and 3. Prime factorizations may contain repeated factors. When you list the factors, you only need to list them once.
No difference. Once you've found the factors of a number, the prime numbers on that list are the prime factors.
All numbers have factors. Some factors are prime numbers, some are composite numbers, one is neither. When finding the factors of a number, you find all the factors. The prime factorization is a multiplication string of just prime factors that will total the given number.
That's finding the prime factorization.
factorization
1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 24 2 x 2 x 2 x 3 = 24 The factors include composite numbers.
The factors of 16 are all the whole numbers that can divide evenly into 16 with no remainder. 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 The prime factorization of 16 is a multiplication sentence of its prime factors. 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 = 16 2^4 = 16
finding the prime factors of a composite number
If you take all the common prime factors between numbers and multiply them it will give you the gcf.
Prime factorization!
they can help you by finding the two factors of the number given
Prime factorization is the finding which prime number multiply to get to make the original number. Factors of 4: 1, 2, 4 Prime Factorization: 2 2 x 2 = 4