Q: What are the prime factors of the number 105,106,049?

Why are those the prime factors of the number 105,106,049?

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 105,106,049

	105,106,049
53		1,983,133
	67		29,599

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:

53, 67, 29599

We can check our work by multiplying all of the prime factors together: 53 x 67 x 29,599 = 105,106,049

This can also be written as 53¹ x 67¹ x 29,599¹ = 105,106,049

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

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