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Why does a square number always have an odd number of factors?
Factors can be listed as factor pairs. With square numbers, one of those pairs will be the same number twice. When written as a list, only one of them will be used, leaving an odd number of factors.
What is six times a number minus twice the same number?
Whatever the variable was.
Is a prime number the same as a prime factor?
If you are talking about the number itself, they can be the same. To be specific: A prime number is a number that only has the factors 1 and itself. A factor is a number that when multiplied creates a product. A prime factor is a prime number that is multiplied to create a product.
Is a number its own factor?
yes because u can divie it into many factor that equal the same number
Why is there an even number of factor pairs?
There are not always an even number of factor pairs of a number - for example, prime numbers have an even number of factors, because they are divisible by themselves and 1, but this is only one pair of factors. However, for any square number, (for example, 3 x 3 = 9, 4 x 4 = 16), at least one of these factor pairs will consist of the same number repeated twice.
