How do I express 108 as a product of prime factors?
3 Answers
Explanation:
Search for all the primes it's divisible by.
As it is even, it is divisible by 2.
54 is also divisible by 2.
You may recognize 27 as being equal to
So, we divided 108 by
These two numbers are powers of primes that when multiplied give us 108:
Explanation:
split the number into a product pair with at least one of them being prime. Then split the non-prime number into a product pair again. Continue until all the factors are prime numbers.
Explanation:
You can start with any two factors of