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Okay A ct asked firing math people Another drill for

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you Here we go Which of the following is the

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prime factory ization of one hundred twenty Strap that hundred

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twenty on the table We're ready to dissect this imager

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to find out what it's made of Finds the prime

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factory ization of a number by dividing as many twos

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as we can at least a start And then as

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many threes as we can and then as many fives

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as we can and so on until we're left with

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only prime numbers So this table shows that we can

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divide by two three times divide by three onesie into

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the fifteen there divide by five once and uh that's

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it So the prime factors one hundred twenty equals two

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to the third Three too The first times Five to

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the first That's it We're done Excuse us These mathematical

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operations can be messy business So that's it The answer

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is a no

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