Q: What are the prime factors of the number 23,503,744?

 A: 2, 11, 16693

Why are those the prime factors of the number 23,503,744?

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 23,503,744

23,503,744
Factor Arrows
211,751,872
Factor Arrows
25,875,936
Factor Arrows
22,937,968
Factor Arrows
21,468,984
Factor Arrows
2734,492
Factor Arrows
2367,246
Factor Arrows
2183,623
Factor Arrows
1116,693

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, 11, 16693

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 11 x 16,693 = 23,503,744

This can also be written as 27 x 111 x 16,6931 = 23,503,744

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


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