Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Product of Prime Factors

If we take any number that is not a prime number we can write it as the product of 2 or more prime numbers. This means it can be made by multiplying prime numbers together. 

Click below to watch some examples using the "factor tree" method. Click the yellow arrow to make it bigger, you can jump backwards and forwards by clicking anywhere on the page.



Starter Notebook p. 13
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You can break these down in lots of different ways but the final answer will always be the same.

Remember: Product means "multiplied together".
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