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Factors Worksheet

This document contains questions and answers about factors of numbers. It discusses which numbers between 1 and 100 have exactly 2 factors or an odd number of factors. It also addresses whether bigger numbers always have more factors, how to write numbers as a product of prime factors using indices, and how many prime numbers are between 1 and 100.

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Factors Worksheet

This document contains questions and answers about factors of numbers. It discusses which numbers between 1 and 100 have exactly 2 factors or an odd number of factors. It also addresses whether bigger numbers always have more factors, how to write numbers as a product of prime factors using indices, and how many prime numbers are between 1 and 100.

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Factors

4 has exactly 3 factors: 1, 2 and 4.


5 has exactly 2 factors: 1 and 5.

1. How many numbers are there between 1 and 100 that have exactly 2 factors?
2. There are 10 numbers between 1 and 100 that have an odd number of factors.
What are they?
3. What is the smallest number to have exactly 5 different factors?
4. What is the largest number less than 100 to have exactly 3 factors?
5. Emily says that bigger numbers always have more factors. Is this true?
6. There is at least one number between 1 and 100 that has 12 different factors.
What is it?
7. How would you describe a “factor” to someone?
8. Is 1 a factor of -1?
9. How many factors does -10 have?
10. If you divide 2 by 0.5 you get 4. Is 0.5 a factor of 2?
11. Jenny says that numbers in the 5 times table always have less factors than the numbers
in the 6 times table. Is she correct?

Numbers with exactly 2 factors are called prime numbers.

12. How many prime numbers are there between 1 and 100?
13. Why isn’t 1 a prime number?
14. Do you think -1 should be a prime number?
15. True or false: There is no number whose factors are all prime numbers

You can write 12 as a product of prime factors: 2 x 2 x 3 = 12

16. Can you write 36 as a product of prime factors?


17. Can you write 50 as a product of prime factors?
18. Can you think of a quick way of writing 225 as a product of prime factors?
19. Which numbers between 1 and 100 cannot be written as a product of prime factors?
20. What is the smallest number with 5 different prime factors?

You can write 36 as a product of prime factors using indices for shorthand, like this:
36 = 22 x 32

21. Can you write 100 as a product of prime factors using indices?
22. Can you write 250 as a product of prime factors using indices?
23. Can you write 1000 as a product of prime factors using indices?
24. What number would be written : 23 x 5 x 73 ?

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Factors Answers
1. 25 numbers :
2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73,
79, 83, 89, 97

2. 1,4,9,16,25,36,49,64,81,100

3. 16 - (1,2,4,8 & 16)

4. 81 - ( 1,9,81)

5. This is false. 49 has 3 factors, 4 also has 3 factors, and 10 has 4 factors.

6. 72 has 12 factors

7. Factors are whole numbers that multiple together to make a number.

8. Yes, factors can be negative but they are not usually included.

9. -10 has 8 factors 1,10,2,5,-1,-10,-2,-5

10. 0.5 is not a factor because it is not a whole number.

11. No, she is wrong. If you compare the 12th multiple of 5 (60), with the 12th
multiple of 6 (72) you find that they have exactly the same number of
factors (12)

12. 25 numbers – see question 1.

13. Because it only has 1 factor (1)

14. Generally the prime numbers were agreed upon before negative numbers
were introduced, so only positive numbers are considered prime. But they

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might change their mind – 1 used to be considered a prime number
originally!

15. True: Every number has 1 as a factor, which is not prime.

16. 36 = 2 x 2 x 3 x 3

17. 50 = 2 x 5 x 5

18. 225 ends in 5, so it must be in the 5 times table. Using a calculator, 5 x 45 =


225. 45 is not prime, but we can do the same again, 9 x 5 = 45, and 9 = 3
x3, so :
5 x 5 x 3 x3 must be 225

19. All the prime numbers and 1, for example, 13 could only be written 13 x 1
but 1 is not a prime number

20. 2310 = 2 x 3 x 5 x 7 x 11

21. 100 = 22 x 52

22. 250 = 2 x 53

23. 1000 = 23 x 53

24. 13720

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