Multiples, Factors and Prime Factors

Ql 1 3 6 9 12 This is real basic stuff —

From the numbers above, write down: you just have to know
a) a multiple of 4 your times tables. And
b) the prime number your primes, of course...
¢) two square numbers
d) three factors of 27
e) two numbers, P and Q, that satisfy both P = 2Q and P = /144

Q2 48 students went on a geography field trip

Their teachers split them into equal groups
Suggest five different ways that the teachers
might have split up the students.

Q3 A school ran 3 evening classes: Conversational French, Cake Making and Woodturning.
The Conversational French class had 29 students, Cake Making had 27 students, and the
Woodturning class had 23. For which classes did the teacher have difficulty dividing the
students into equal groups?

Q4 a) Write down the first five cube numbers.

b) Which of the numbers given in part a) are multiples of 2?
¢) Which of the numbers given in part a) are multiples of 3?
d) Which of the numbers given in part a) are multiples of 4?
e) Which of the numbers given in part a) are multiples of 5?

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Q6 a) List the first five prime numbers.

b) If added together, what is their total?
¢) Write down the prime factorisation of the answer to part b).

Q7 a) List the first five odd numbers.

b) If added together, what is their total?
c) Write down the prime factorisation of the answer to part b).
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Q8 The prime factor decomposition of a certain number is 32x 5 x 11.
a) Write down the number.
b) Write down the prime factor decomposition of 165.

Q9 a) Write down the first ten square numbers.

b) From your list, pick out all the multiples of 2.
ce) From your list, pick out all the multiples of 3.
d) From your list, pick out any cube numbers.
e) Add the numbers in your list together and write
down the prime factor decomposition of the total.

Q10 ~~ Gordon is doing some woodwork and needs to calculate

the volume of a wooden rectangular block (a cuboid).
The length of the block is 50 cm, the height 25 cm and the width 16 cm.
a) What is the volume (in cm’) of the wooden block?
b) What is the prime factorisation of the number found in part a)?
c) Gordon needs to cut the block into smaller blocks with dimensions 4 cm x 5cm x5 cm.
What is the maximum number of small blocks Gordon can make from the larger block?
Make sure you show all your working.

Q11 The prime factor decomposition of a certain number is 2? x 5 x 17.

a) What is the number?
b) What is the prime factor decomposition of half of this number?
¢) What is the prime factor decomposition of a quarter of the number?
d) What is the prime factor decomposition of an eighth of the number?

Q12 ‘Bryan and Sue were playing a guessing game. Sue thought of a number
between 1 and 100 which Bryan had to guess. Bryan was allowed to ask five
questions, which are listed with Sue’s responses in the table below.

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Is it prime? No Start by writing down
Is it odd? No a number table up to 100:
Is it less than 507 Yes Look at each response in
turn and cross off numbers
Is it a multiple of 37 Yes
‘till you've only got
Is it a multiple of 77 Yes one left.

What is the number that Sue thought of?