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What are the prime factors of 16?(a) 2×4×2(b) 2×2×2×2(c) 8×2(d) 16×1I got this question in unit test.My enquiry is from Square Root in division Squares and Square Roots of Mathematics – Class 8

Answer» RIGHT answer is (b) 2×2×2×2

The explanation is: Prime FACTORS are the multiplication of all the prime numbers in order to RECEIVE the desired number at the end. Here we have the number to be FACTORIZED as 16=2^4(i.e.2×2×2×2). Therefore the answer would 2^4(i.e.2×2×2×2).


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