Q: What are the prime factors of the number 103,116,672?

 A: 2, 3, 29837

Why are those the prime factors of the number 103,116,672?

Prime factors are the prime numbers that can be multipled together to equal the original number. You find the factors by dividing by prime numbers. It is best shown by creating a Factor Tree.

Factor Tree for the number 103,116,672

103,116,672
Factor Arrows
251,558,336
Factor Arrows
225,779,168
Factor Arrows
212,889,584
Factor Arrows
26,444,792
Factor Arrows
23,222,396
Factor Arrows
21,611,198
Factor Arrows
2805,599
Factor Arrows
3268,533
Factor Arrows
389,511
Factor Arrows
329,837

The numbers in bold above are the prime factors. If there are multiples, you only count them one time. This leads us to our prime factors of:

2, 3, 29837

We can check our work by multiplying all of the prime factors together: 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 3 x 3 x 3 x 29,837 = 103,116,672

This can also be written as 27 x 33 x 29,8371 = 103,116,672

If you would like to know more, or need additional explanation, please review our prime factorization explanation.


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