Q: What are the prime factors of the number 435,526,411?

Why are those the prime factors of the number 435,526,411?

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 435,526,411

	435,526,411
97		4,489,963
	587		7,649

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:

97, 587, 7649

We can check our work by multiplying all of the prime factors together: 97 x 587 x 7,649 = 435,526,411

This can also be written as 97¹ x 587¹ x 7,649¹ = 435,526,411

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

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