Best AnswerThe prime factorization of a number is all the prime numbers that multiply to make it.
So to find the prime factorization of 98:
98/2=49
(2 is a prime number; set it aside)
49/7=7
7 is also a prime number, and it appears twice
so the prime factorization of 49 would be
2*7*7
=2*7^2