SOLUTION: Find the prime factorization of 40

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Question 64277: Find the prime factorization of 40
Answer by funmath(2933) About Me  (Show Source):
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Most people use factor trees to do this these days. That's real difficult to do in this program, so what I'm going to do is divide by the smallest numbers I know that will go evenly into 40, then the reamianders. The left column will be the prime factors.
Find the prime factorization of 40
2 * 20
2 * 10
2 * 5
5 * 1
The prime factors are 2*2*2*5 or 2%5E3%2A5
Happy Calculating!!!