What are the factors and prime factors of 218?
218 is a composite number because it has factors other than 1 and itself. It is not a prime number.The 4 factors of 218 are 1, 2, 109, and 218.The factor pairs of 218 are 1 x 218 and 2 x 109.The proper factors of 218 are 1, 2, and 109 or,if the definition you are using excludes 1, they are 2 and 109.The prime factors of 218 are 2 and 109.The distinct prime factors (listing each prime factor only once) of 218 are also 2 and 109.The prime factorization of 218 is 2 x 109.NOTE: There cannot be common factors, a greatest common factor, or a least common multiple because "common" refers to factors or multiples that two or more numbers have in common.