You do a factor tree
80
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2 40
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4 10
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2 2 2 5
Circle all prime numbers (bold) and then list different combinations of those to find them. Like 2 x 2, 2 x 5 and then go on to 2 x 2 x 2, 2 x 2 x 5 etc. and those answers will each be a factor. 2 x 2 = 4, therefore 4 is a factor of 80.
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You find what half of the number is and then you look through all of the numbers and whichever numbers go into that number evenly are factors.
All of them. Different numbers have different numbers of factors.
That depends what number you are trying to find the factors of - all those three numbers are factors of the number 18.
-- List all factors of the first number. -- List all factors of the second number. -- If there are more than two numbers, list all factors of each one. -- Find the set of factors that are on every list. -- Find the greatest factor in the set.
The prime factors of 51 are 3 and 17. Once you add itself and one, you have all the factors. (1,3,17,51)
Explaining how to find all factors pairs of 40 is easy. All you have to do is find which whole numbers 40 can be divided into.