How do you find the factors of 32?
February 20th, 2023
See explanation.
To look for factors of a specified number you start from the smallest possible factors.
##32## is an evan number, so ##2## is the smallest factor:
##32-:2=16##
Again ##16## is even, so ##2## is also the factor of ##16##:
##16-:2=8##
##8-:2=4##
##4-:2=2##
##2## is prime, so it only is divisible by ##1## and itself.
Finally we can write that: ##32=2xx2xx2xx2xx2=2^5##