Q: What are the prime factors of the number 572,410,537?

Why are those the prime factors of the number 572,410,537?

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 572,410,537

	572,410,537
79		7,245,703

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:

79, 7245703

We can check our work by multiplying all of the prime factors together: 79 x 7,245,703 = 572,410,537

This can also be written as 79¹ x 7,245,703¹ = 572,410,537

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

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