What are the factors and prime factors of 86?

Answer 1

86 is a composite number because it has factors other than 1 and itself. It is not a Prime number.

The 4 factors of 86 are 1, 2, 43, and 86.

The factor pairs of 86 are 1 x 86 and 2 x 43.

The proper factors of 86 are 1, 2, and 43 or,

if the definition you are using excludes 1, they are 2 and 43.

The prime factors of 86 are 2 and 43.

The 2 distinct prime factors (listing each prime factor only once) of 86 are 2 and 43.

The prime factorization of 86 is 2 x 43.

NOTE: There cannot be common factors, a greatest common factor, or a least common multiple because "common" refers to factors or multiples that two or more numbers have in common. The prime factorization is 2 to the 2nd power times 3 times 7.