The Singing Hedgehog Guide to:
Prime Factors
A prime factor is simply a factor that is also a prime number.
We are often asked to express a value as the product of its prime factors.
There are three ways to do this:
Bookwork Method
Proper Tree Method
Mr H's cheaty Tree Method
It may also ask for the answer to be written 'using indices'; this simply means use squares and cubes and stuff when you can.
We may then have to
use prime factors
.
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