What is the differences between a product and a factor?

Answer 1

Proper factors occur when you list all the factors of a number except for 1 and the number itself. Common factors occur when you compare a minimum of two sets of factors and see which ones they share.

Answer 2

The factors of 6 are 1,2,3 and 6. The proper factors of 6 are 2 and 3. Factors of a number include the number itself and 1, proper factors don't include them.

Answer 3

A product is what you answer is if you're MULTIPLYING, and a factor is either dividing or adding.

Answer 4

Factors multiply together to form a product.
In the sentence 9 x 4 = 36, 9 and 4 are factors of the product 36.

Answer 5

The factors of a number include 1 and the number itself. The proper factors do not.

Answer 6

Every number is a factor of itself but it is excluded from the set of proper factors.