Question

What are the factors of 206?

Answer 1

In total, there are 8 factors, if you include both positive and negative numbers: -206, -103, -2, -1, 1, 2, 103, and 206.

Explanation:

1 and -1 are immediately factors of 206. Now, because 206 is an even number, we can now list 2 and -2 as our next factors. Now, we divide 206 by 2, which comes up with 103. When you divide by -2, you get -103, which are our other factors. Now, we finally divide 206 by 206 and -206. Dividing by 206 would result in the 1 property of division, which states that if you divide a number by itself, the result would be one. Now, we can apply the same theory to negative 1, so our final factors would by 206 and -206. So, now we just need to list the factors.