Question

What are prime numbers? Find the prime factorization of 2048.

Answer 1

All the numbers other than 1, whose only factors are 1 and the number itself are called prime numbers.
The prime factorization of 2048 is shown below.


$\therefore$ $2048=2\times 2\times 2\times 2\times 2\times 2\times 2\times 2\times 2\times 2\times 2$