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What do you mean by prime factorization?


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Writing a number as a product of any other numbers.

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Writing a number as a product of only prime factors.

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Writing a number as a sum of only prime factors.

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Writing a number as a sum of any other numbers.

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Solution

The correct option is B

Writing a number as a product of only prime factors.


Prime factorization is finding the factors of a number that are all prime.

Eg:- 12 = 2 × 2 × 3

36 = 2 × 2 × 3 × 3 etc.


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