Q: What are the prime factors of the number 104,213?

Why are those the prime factors of the number 104,213?

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 104,213

	104,213
23		4,531
	23		197

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:

23, 197

We can check our work by multiplying all of the prime factors together: 23 x 23 x 197 = 104,213

This can also be written as 23² x 197¹ = 104,213

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

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