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Last updated on November 28th, 2024
Factors are the numbers that divide another number equally, without leaving any remainder. When you multiply two numbers to find another number, the two which are multiplied are factors. You can think of factors as the building blocks that will help you make numbers.
Factors are the numbers that help us divide things equally without any leftovers. The number has both positive and negative integers that divide 141 without leaving any remainder. 1,3,47, and 141 are the factors of 141.
Factors help us divide numbers equally, making calculations faster and easier. Given below are the methods used to find factors:
In this method, we take two numbers and find the product of those two numbers to get the required number.
Example:
2×47=141
1×141=141, which means that 1,3,47, and 141 are the factors of 141.
We divide 141 by numbers starting from 1 and see which number gives the remainder of 0.
141 1=141
141 3=47
141 47=3
141 141=1
So the factors are 1,3,47 and 141.
The breaking down of numbers as prime factors is called prime factorization. The factors of 141 are:
141=3 × 47
A factor tree shows how a number can be parted down into prime factors.141 is broken down into two factors, 3 and 47.
A number should have both positive and negative factors:
Positive :( 1,3,47,141)
Negative:(- 1,-3,-47,-141)