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What are all of 496's factors?
Find any factor - like 2, then divide by 2, to get the other factor: 2 x 248. Continue finding more factors for the number to the right, until you divided the number into prime factors.
What is the number with the most factors?
There isn't any, and it is quite simple to prove that. Suppose there is a number with the most factors and suppose that number is X. Now consider Y = 2*X. Y has all the factors of X and it has another factor, which is 2. So Y has more factors than X. This contradicts the statement that X has the most factors. Therefore, there is no number with the most factors.
What numbers have more than 2 factors?
All composite numbers have more than two factors. The smallest such number is 4, which is equal to 2 x 2. 4 has three factors: 1, 2, and 4.
What are the factors of 14 and 28 Why is the answer correct How did you get them?
14 28 / \ / \ 7 2 2 14 / \ 2 7 Factors of 14: 7,2 Factors of 28: 2, 2, 7 Factors are prime numbers that are all the product of the original number. 7*2 is 14 and 2*2*7 is 28
What is a number with more than 2 factors called?
A whole number with more than 2 factors is a composite number.
Why is the number 2 a factor number?
All numbers can be factors.
What prime number has only 2 factors?
All prime numbers have only 2 factors. A prime number has 1 and itself as its only factors.
What are all the factors of two?
As 2 is a prime number, it only has 2 factors: 1 and itself.
What is the formula for finding the factors of 240?
The procedure to find all factors of a number are: 1) Separate the number into prime factors. 2) Try out all combinations of those factors.
Why is the set of factors of a number not the same as the set of proper factors of that number?
Proper factors of a number do not include 1 or the number itself. For example, all of the factors of 6 are 1, 2, 3, and 6, but the proper factors of 6 are 2 and 3.
What number has factors of 2?
All even numbers.
Do all even numbers have two factors and why?
Every number except the number 1 has at least two factors, 1 and the number itself. Prime numbers have exactly two factors and composite numbers have more than two factors. All even numbers except the number 2 are composite numbers and have more than two factors. The number 2 is prime and its only factors are 1 and 2.
Every number with factors of 10 also must have factors of?
5, 2, and 1, are all going to be factors with and number that 10 is a factor of.
What are all the prime factors of the number 40?
2 and 5
Does every number have atleast 2 factors?
All but 1.
A number greater than 1 that has more than two whole number factors?
Not always. Some numbers such as 2, also known as prime factors, only have 2. Besides prime factors, they are all over 2 factors.
What number has 2 3 and 5 for their factors?
30 and all multiples of 30 have 2, 3, and 5 among their factors.
