Q: What are the prime factors of the number 119,586,912?

 A: 2, 3, 19, 65563

Why are those the prime factors of the number 119,586,912?

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 119,586,912

119,586,912
Factor Arrows
259,793,456
Factor Arrows
229,896,728
Factor Arrows
214,948,364
Factor Arrows
27,474,182
Factor Arrows
23,737,091
Factor Arrows
31,245,697
Factor Arrows
1965,563

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, 19, 65563

We can check our work by multiplying all of the prime factors together: 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 3 x 19 x 65,563 = 119,586,912

This can also be written as 25 x 31 x 191 x 65,5631 = 119,586,912

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


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