The smallest positive integer with exactly 12 factors is 60.
You may check to see that 60 has exactly twelve factors, by noting the following:
60 = 1 X 60 = 2 X 30 = 3 x 20 = 4 X 15 = 5 x 12 = 6 x 10. The factors that are less than 8 are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6; the factors that are more than 8 are obtained by dividing the six factors already found into 60.
Any number less than 60 must have six numbers less than 8 that divide into it, in order to have exactly twelve divisors. In fact, the requirement is more stringent than that: for a number (n, say) to have exactly twelve divisors, six of them must be less than the square-root of n. That you won't be able to find any is borne out by the fact that the least common multiple of any 6 of the first seven integers must be at least as great as the l. c. m. of the first six positive integers, namely 60.
I BELIEVE IT IS 156 THE SMALLEST NUMBER 4 AND 6 GO INTO IS 12 12 X 13 = 156
Numbers that can be multiplied together to get another number are its factors. A factor is a number that goes evenly into the number you're factoring. When you factor a number, say 12, you break it into its smallest parts. You could start with 6 x 2 and then 6 can be factored into 2 x 3, so the factors of 12 could be 2 x 2 x 3. To factor x^2 + 5x + 4 is to break it down into simpler parts.
No. 81=9*9=3*27=1*81 81 has 5 factors and is a square number. 36=6*6=3*12=1*36=2*18=4*9 36 has 9 factors and is a square number. This doesn't mean that no square numbers have exactly 3 factors though, because: 9=3*3=1*9 9 has 3 factors and is a square number. 4=2*2=1*4 4 has 3 factors and is a square number. All square numbers have an odd number of factors though (because they have a whole number which multiplies by itself to get the number). Factors are whole numbers only, and not decimals. Hope this helps :)
12, 24, and 48 are all multiples of 12 and factors of 48.
Because it is a factor of that number. Factors are a fundamental part of number theory
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4096 is the smallest number with exactly 13 factors. (Including 1 and itself as factors).192 is the smallest number with exactly 13 properfactors, (excluding the number itself).120 is the smallest number with at least 13 factors (it has 16 factors)To find the smallest number with exactly N factors (for example, N=12):Factor N into primes, (for example, 12= 2*2*3Subtract 1 from each of the prime factors (for example, 1,1,2)Sort them by largest first (for example, 2,1,1)Raise successive prime numbers to these powers (for example, 2^2,3^1,5^1)Multiply these together (for example: 4*3*5 = 60; 60 is the smallest number with exactly 12 factors).
The smallest positive integer that has exactly 6 factors is 12. To determine the number of factors an integer has, we can use its prime factorization. In the case of 12, its prime factorization is 2^2 * 3, which means it has (2+1)(1+1) = 6 factors.
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The smallest number that has 9 and 12 as factors is 36.
240 is the smallest number with at least 19 factors. 240 has twenty factors: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 16, 20, 24, 30, 40, 48, 60, 80, 120, 240 262144 is the smallest number with EXACTLY 19 factors
36. (Factors are 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 12, 18 and 36.)
12 is as it has 6 factors and is the smallest and first to have. Factors of 12= 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 12
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