You can think of a factor as a number that divides another number with no remainder. For example, 3 is a factor of 6 since 3 goes into 6 two times with no remainder. Now if the factor is prime, then it is a prime factor. So in the example above, 3 is a prime factor. This is because the factor itself has only two factors, 1 and itself. 6 goes into itself also, but since 6 is not prime, it is not a prime factor. Now that you understand it, here is a more precise definition. A prime factor is a factor that is a prime number. In other words, one of the prime numbers that, when multiplied, give the original number.
I might be reading this incorrectly, but it seems to me that I can take two prime numbers, 3 and 3, and make the square number nine out of them. This is also true of all the other prime numbers.
No, all primes greater than 2 are odd numbers.
You don't. 41 is a prime number. Prime numbers don't have factor trees, since they only have one prime factor.
The process of factorization is breaking a number down into smaller parts. Sometimes you are asked to list the factors, which are all the numbers that divide into a given number evenly, with no remainder. The factors of 36 are 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 12, 18, 36.Sometimes you are asked to provide the prime factors which are the prime numbers that multiply to make the number. The prime factorization of 36 is 2 x 2 x 3 x 3."Prime Factorization" is finding which prime numbersmultiply together to make the original number.
The prime factorization of 24 is 2x2x2x3.
2x5x5=50
17 and 17
2x3x3x3
1225 = 52*72
7 x 53
They are: 2*17 = 34
They are: 5*5*5*11 = 1375
105 = 3 x 5 x 7
3 x 7 x 7 = 147
135 = 3 x 3 x 3 x 5
2 x 29 x 41