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What is "product of its factors?"

 Sep 12, 2014

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They probably mean writing a number as a product of it's prime factors.

Remember that prime numbers are numbers that can only be divided by itself and 1.

Now every number that is not a prime number can therefore be written as a product of two or more prime numbers. (Since it is the opposite of a prime number). For example 9 = 3*3, 14 = 7*2 and 18 = 3*3*2

 

I think this page describes accurately how to find the prime factors of a number; http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/58534.html 

Tell me if this helped in finding your answer.

Otherwise, if you tell us which number you want to write as a product of it's prime factors we'll give you an example.

 

Reinout-g 

 Sep 12, 2014
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They probably mean writing a number as a product of it's prime factors.

Remember that prime numbers are numbers that can only be divided by itself and 1.

Now every number that is not a prime number can therefore be written as a product of two or more prime numbers. (Since it is the opposite of a prime number). For example 9 = 3*3, 14 = 7*2 and 18 = 3*3*2

 

I think this page describes accurately how to find the prime factors of a number; http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/58534.html 

Tell me if this helped in finding your answer.

Otherwise, if you tell us which number you want to write as a product of it's prime factors we'll give you an example.

 

Reinout-g 

reinout-g Sep 12, 2014

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