23 x 3 x 5 = 120
It's more efficient. You want to end up with all prime numbers. You could divide by a composite number, but you'd just have to break that number down later. It saves steps.
No. For example: 4181 / 37 = 113 so it can't be prime. But 4181 is the first composite number in the Fibonacci sequence with a prime index. ;)
You can use prime numbers to factorize numbers, a very useful tool
23 x 32
35 = 243
2 x 33 = 54
5^2
As a product of its prime factors: 23*3*5 = 120
1, 2, 11, 22 2 and 11 are prime.
23 x 3 x 5 = 120
It is: 24*112 = 1936
48 = 24 x 3
15 = 31*51
To express 96 as a product of its prime factors using index notation, we first find the prime factors of 96, which are 2^5 * 3. This can be written in index notation as 2^5 * 3^1. So, 96 can be expressed as 2^5 * 3^1 in index notation.
break it into prime number multiples,10 = 2 * 5 (both prime numbers)example: factorize 387(387) = 9 * 43 (both primes , end of excercise)factorize 390:(390) = 2 * (195) = 3 * (65) = 5 * 13 (both primes , end of excercise)
If you play the factor game, you factorize the number. If the number of factors are only 2 including 1 and number itself, then it is a prime.