What are the factors and prime factors of 54?

Answer 1

54 is a composite number because it has factors other than 1 and itself. This means it is not a Prime number.

The 8 factors of 54 are 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 18, 27, and 54.

The factor pairs of 54 are 1 x 54, 2 x 27, 3 x 18, and 6 x 9.

The proper factors of 54 are 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 18, and 27 or,

if the definition you are using excludes 1, they are 2, 3, 6, 9, 18, and 27.

The prime factors of 54 are 2, 3, 3, and 3.

Note: There is repetition of these factors, so if the prime factors are being listed instead of the prime factorization, usually only the distinct prime factors are listed.

The 2 distinct prime factors (listing each prime factor only once) of 54 are 2 and 3.

The prime factorization of 54 is 2 x 3 x 3 x 3 or, in index form (in other words, using exponents), 2 x 33.

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 positive factors of 54 are 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 18, 27, and 54.

Answer 2

The factors of -54 are:

1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 18, 27, 54 and their negatives.

The prime factors are 2 and 3

Answer 3

The factors of 54 are 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 18, 27 and 54.
The prime factors are 2 x 3 x 3 x 3.

Answer 4

1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 18, 27, 54

2 x 3 x 3 x 3 = 54