How do you find the factors of 32?

1 Answer
Dec 5, 2016

See explanation.

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