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Prime Factorisation

This document explains how to write numbers as the product of their prime factors using factor trees. It provides examples of writing 56, 90, and 420 as products of prime factors. It then lists practice problems for writing 72, 80, 75, 648, and 108 as products of prime factors. The key steps are to draw a factor tree, find all factors of a number, and continue splitting factors into prime factors until only prime numbers remain.

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Prime Factorisation

This document explains how to write numbers as the product of their prime factors using factor trees. It provides examples of writing 56, 90, and 420 as products of prime factors. It then lists practice problems for writing 72, 80, 75, 648, and 108 as products of prime factors. The key steps are to draw a factor tree, find all factors of a number, and continue splitting factors into prime factors until only prime numbers remain.

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Prime Factorisation

Factor Trees
What’s It All About?
You are going to learn:

How to write a number as the product of its prime


factors.

What skills should you have already?


You need to know what it means for a number to be a
prime number or a factor.
You need sound multiplication skills.
Example 1
Write 56 as a product of its prime factors.
List the first few prime
numbers:
56
2 is a prime number
2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19... and a factor of 56 so 2
2 28 is a prime factor of 56.
Is 28 a prime factor?
This is called a factor tree.
All the red digits are prime 2 14 No, so repeat the
factors of 56. process for 28.

2 7
A product is the result 56 is an even number
so can be written as 2
of multiplying.
56 = 2  2  2  7  something...
Example 2
Write 90 as a product of its prime factors.
Draw a factor tree:
90
List the first few prime Is 45 a prime factor?
numbers:
2 45 No, so repeat the
2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19... process for 45.

5 9
90 is an even number.
45 is not an even This is not the only
number. 3 3 possible factor tree,
45 is in the 5 times but any factor tree
table.
90 = 2  3  3  5 should give the
same end result!
Example 3
Write 420 as a product of its prime factors.
Draw a factor tree:
420
2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19...
2 210

2 105

5 21

3 7
420 = 2  2  5  3  7
Your Turn
Draw a factor tree and use it to write each of
the following as the product of its prime
factors.
1. 72
2. 80
3. 75
4. 648
5. 108
Answers
1. 72 72

2 36

2 18

2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19... 2 9

3 3

72 = 2  2  2  3  3
Answers
2. 80 80

2 40

2 20

2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19... 2 10

2 5

80 = 2  2  2  2  5
Answers
3. 75 75

3 25

5 5

2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19...

75 = 3  5  5
Answers
4. 648 648

2 324

2 126

2 81
2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19...

9 9

3 3 3 3
648 = 2  2  2  3  3  3  3
Answers
5. 108 108

2 54

2 27

2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19... 3 9

3 3

108 = 2  2  3  3  3
End

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