What times what equal 36?

Answer 1

The way to figure our the FACTORS, or what you called the "what times what"s, is simple. It's called the rainbow method. You must fully and completely understand what a FACTOR is before you can do anything. look at this simple multiplication problem. 2 x 3 = 6. 2 and 3 are the factors. 4 x 5 = 20. 4 and 5 are the factors. Get it? Okay, let's start. First, write the number down. 36 Now, every number you can think of times one will be that original number. So, for example, one times sixty-five equals sixty-five. (1 x 65 = 65) 1 is a FACTOR of every single number. What follows that is that 1 x 36 must equal 36. So 1 and 36 are FACTORS. Put them on opposite sides of your "rainbow." 36: 1, , 36 Now, move up a number. 2 is the next number you should try. Any even number can be divided by 2. 2 times 18 equals 36. (2 x 18 = 36) Put those numbers inside 1 and 36 as your next line of the rainbow. 36: 1, 2, , 18, 36 Now three. A trick for finding our whether three is a factor. Add the digits of the number. 3 + 6 = 9. 9 divided by 3 = 3. It comes out evenly, so 3 is a factor. 3 x 12 = 36. Those go next on your rainbow. 36: 1, 2, 3, , 12, 18, 36 Now, four and five are NOT factors of 36. Skip those. 6 IS a factor. 6 x 6 is = 36. Don't write 6 two times. Your final rainbow should look like this. 36: 1, 2, 3, 6, 12, 18, 36.