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Where can you find a prime factor chart up to 200?

Google


Why do you do factor trees?

to help find prime factorizations of composite numbers


When do you use a factor tree?

When you want to find the prime factorization of a composite number.


What dose prime factor mean?

it means to find out if the number is composite or prime


How do you find out if a number is a prime or composite?

Factor it. Prime numbers have two factors, composite numbers have more than two.


To find a composite number why divide by prime numbers?

You could try dividing by composite numbers but the number that you are testing is divisible by a composite number, then it will be divisible by a prime factor of that composite number and that prime factor will be smaller. It is always easier to work with smaller numbers.


How do you find out if a number is prime or comparative?

Factor it. If it has only two factors, it's prime. If it has more than two, it's composite.


What number is on top of a factor tree?

Whatever composite number you're trying to find the prime factorization of.


What is the greatest common factor of 24 and 47?

GCF of a prime number and a composite number is 1 if the prime number is not a factor of the composite number. Here 103 is a prime number and 120 is a composite number. And 120 is not divisible by 103(or 103 is not a factor of 120). So, GCF(103,120) = 1


How can you determine whether a counting number is a composite number?

Start looking for factors; you already know that 1 is a factor, and that the number itself is a second factor (unless the number is 1). As soon as you find a factor that is neither 1 nor the number itself, the number is composite. If you find exactly two factors, the number is prime. If the number has only one factor, the number is 1, which is neither prime nor composite.


How can you draw a flow chart to find out that a given number is prime or composite?

Well, you can create the flowchart to you, but here is the basic outline of what needs to be done. Call your number - the number you want to test - "n". Divide it by each integer in turn, starting with 2, and ending with "n-2". What matters here is the remainder of the division. If at any point you get a remainder of zero, that means you have found a smaller factor, and the number is NOT a prime - it is composite. You can end the process immediately. If you do all the divisions and DON'T get a remainder of zero at any point, there is NO smaller factor, so your number is prime. (To make the process run faster, you can actually stop once your factor is greater than the square root of "n".)


How do you find the composite number?

Factor it. Once you find a third factor, it's composite.