No difference. Once you've found the factors of a number, the prime numbers on that list are the prime factors.
Well, the factors of a prime number is that they only have two factors.
That is called the difference between them.
Factors go into the number. The number goes into multiples.
The proper factors are the regular factors without one and the number itself.
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.
Proper factors do not include one and the number itself.
17 If the number has only two factors, it must be a prime number. The only factors of 17 are 1 and 17. The difference between 1 and 17 is 16.
The difference is 4104.
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.
By finding the difference of them
All numbers have factors. Some factors are prime numbers, some are not.
The difference is that a prime number only has two factors that's one and itself, a composite has more factors than one and itself.