Q: What are the prime factors of the number 234,225,152?

 A: 2, 7, 65353

Why are those the prime factors of the number 234,225,152?

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 234,225,152

234,225,152
Factor Arrows
2117,112,576
Factor Arrows
258,556,288
Factor Arrows
229,278,144
Factor Arrows
214,639,072
Factor Arrows
27,319,536
Factor Arrows
23,659,768
Factor Arrows
21,829,884
Factor Arrows
2914,942
Factor Arrows
2457,471
Factor Arrows
765,353

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, 7, 65353

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 2 x 2 x 7 x 65,353 = 234,225,152

This can also be written as 29 x 71 x 65,3531 = 234,225,152

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


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