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A factor tree breaks a number down into it's prime numbers.

A Prime number is a number that can only be divided by 1 and itself.
For example: 3 is a prime number, because the only numbers that can be divided evenly into 3 are 1 and 3.

Your number is 77. I can tell by looking at the number that it is divisible by 7 (note the double 7's in 77)

77 / 7 = 11.

This means that 7 * 11 = 77

Your factor tree would look like:

......77
....../ \
.....7*11

Now we see if 7 and 11 can be broken down into smaller prime factors.
Fortunately for us, 7 is already a prime number.
And, as luck would have it, 11 is also a prime number.

This completes the factor tree of 77.

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