Q: What are the prime factors of the number 575,453,103?

Why are those the prime factors of the number 575,453,103?

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 575,453,103

	575,453,103
3		191,817,701
	433		442,997

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:

3, 433, 442997

We can check our work by multiplying all of the prime factors together: 3 x 433 x 442,997 = 575,453,103

This can also be written as 3¹ x 433¹ x 442,997¹ = 575,453,103

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

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