How do you find the prime factorization on 75?
2 Answers
Jan 11, 2017
Divide by prime factors to find that
Explanation:
The simplest way of finding the prime factorization of an integer is to divide by prime factors until the result is a prime.
First, we can see that
Next,
Finally,
Jan 11, 2017
Keep on trying to divide by the primes in succession:
Explanation:
2 doesn't go into 75
3 does:
another 3 doesn't go into 25
5 does:
And there it ends, because the last