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How do you find the factors of 32?

Answer 1

Emery Allen

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#

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Answer 2

Jeremiah Andrews

To find the factors of 32, you can list all the pairs of numbers that multiply together to give 32. The factors of 32 are: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, and 32.

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