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Q: Where are prime factors used in real life?
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What real life situations are prime numbers used?

Any situation numbers are used.


How many factors can be used at the most to be a prime number?

Prime numbers only have two factors, one and the number itself.


What does prime mean in mathematics?

When used as in "prime number" or "prime factor", it means that the number has exactly 2 factors. For example: 17 has only the factors 1 and 17, so it is prime. 14 has the factors 1, 2, 7, and 14, so it is not prime. When used as in "relatively prime", it means that two or more numbers do not have any common factors other than 1. For example: 3 and 4 do not have any common factors other than 1, so they are relatively prime. 6 and 10 have 1 and 2 as common factors, so they are not relatively prime.


How do you use prime numbers in real life?

Data encryption, used for personal identification numbers (PINs) and for secure communications over the internet are based on very large prime numbers.


Which prime numbers can be mulitiplied to form?

Prime numbers are used to find the product of the prime factors of composite numbers.


How is prime factorization used in real life situations?

none that I know of... except maybe cycling your brain to stay awake whilst driving.


What are prime numbers used for in the real world?

cryptography


What real-life situations are prime numbers used?

Large prime numbers are used in encryption. The larger the primes, the better the encryption. Typically each of two people will provide a prime; you need to know both prime numbers to decrypt. A program is used to calculate the values to be sent. The message is sent along with the product of the primes (sender's prime * receiver's prime). Since the number will be large it is difficult to crack (again, larger the better). To decrypt you have to know both prime numbers. Knowing one and the product makes it easy (just divide). If you only have the product, decrypting can be very time-consuming as you are forced to find the factors of the number


Are proportions used in real life?

Proportions are used in real life to determine prices of things.


What do factors have to do with real life?

Number factors help find common denominators in fractions and reducing fractions. In algebra they are used to find the answers to higher level equations like quadratics.


How can prime numbers be used in your everyday life?

Prime numbers are used to find the LCM of numbers Prime numbers are used to find the HCF of numbers Prime numbers are used to simplify fractions Prime numbers are used to find the LCD of fractions


Where do you use prime factorization in the real world?

i know this is a bad answer but really, no where. my father said when he was young he learned it and never EVER used it once in his whole life.