Unit 3: Prime Factorization Name: ______________

Foundations of Math 10

Part 2: Section 4 and 5

Section Details Practice /Mark

1 Overview and Reviewing Factors Complete ☑

2 Factor Pairs Complete ☑
3 Prime and Composite Numbers Complete ☑
Assignment 1 ___/20 = ___%

Everything above should have been completed and handed in already.

4 Factor Trees Complete ⃞

5 Products of Prime Factorization Complete ⃞

Assignment 2 ___/25 = ___%

Hand in Part 2 to your teacher and request Part 3

6 Greatest Common Factor (GCF) Complete ⃞

7 Least Common Multiple (LCM) Complete ⃞

8 Using Factorization to Determine Perfect Squares or Complete ⃞

Cubes

Assignment 3 ___/44 = ___%

Total: Add Assignment 1,2 and 3 percentages then divide by 3. ______ %

Hand in Part 3 to your teacher and request the Practice Test

Practice Test ______ %

Hand in the Practice Test to your teacher and request the Test

Unit 3 Test ______ %

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 Section 4: Factor Trees
Another way to find factors is to use a factor tree. This is a way to organize the
factors and to figure out factors you may have missed when you are dealing with
more complex numbers.
To start a factor tree, you just need to find one factor pair. Continue by breaking each
factor you find into their own factor pairs. - You stop when you end up with prime
numbers at the end of each branch. Note that in a factor tree we do not write 1 at the
end of any of the branches, but if you were asked to write down all of the factors,
you would need to write down 1 and the original number in the list.
Example:
Make a factor tree for 50.
Since 50 is even, 2 divides into it giving the answer of
25, so we can start the factor tree with the factor pair 2,
25.
2 is a prime, but 25 isn’t, so we leave the 2 branch
alone and continue by finding a factor pair for 25.
25 is divisible by 5 with the answer being 5.
Lastly, 5 is prime, so we know we are done.

Practice Questions:
1. Create factor trees for the following numbers.

a. 18 b. 32

c. 40 d. 48

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 Answers to the Practice Questions:

Note that for question a and b there are 2 possible answers (your answer should
match at least one of them). For c there are three possible solutions, and 5 for d.

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 There are often multiple ways to draw the factor tree, but if you look
closely at the results you will find that all of the answers end up including
all the same prime numbers at the end of the branches.

Section 5: Products of Prime Factorization

Once you make a prime factor tree, your next step is to show the answer
by writing the number as a product of prime factors by using the
numbers at the ends of the branches. Make sure to put them in
numerical order from smallest factor to largest.

Example: Write the product of factors of the following factor trees.

Practice Questions:
1. Write the product of factors of the following factor trees. Where
possible show it in simplest form.

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Answers to the Practice Questions:

1a.

Assignment 2 ___/25

1. List the prime factors of the following numbers using a factor tree. __/4 marks

A. 15 C. 24

B. 20 D. 66

2. Express each of the following numbers as products of prime factors. __/4

A. 15 = C. 24 =

B. 20 = D. 6 =

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3. Explain why the numbers 0 and 1 can’t have prime factors. __/1

4. Complete a factor tree for each of the following and then circle the prime
factors. __/4

A. 390 C. 3705

B. 546 D. 6762

5. For each of the following, write the number as a product of prime factors: __/2
A. 189 B. 4235

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 6. Which of the following numbers is NOT a prime factor of 1925? __/1
A. 5
B. 7
C. 11
D. 13

7. How many of the numbers in the list 2,3,9 and 13 are NOT PRIME factors of
2592? __/1
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4

8. Place check marks beside the numbers that are factors of 373065. __/6

𝥷2 𝥷7 𝥷 17
𝥷3 𝥷 11 𝥷 19
𝥷5 𝥷 13 𝥷 23
9. There is only one set of prime triplets (three consecutive odd numbers which
are all prime). If you were to add up the value of all of these numbers, it
would equal: __/1

A. 10
B. 15
C. 21
D. 31

10. The number 686 can be expressed as a product of prime factors in the form
p x qr. The values of p, q and r are: __/1
A. p = 2, q = 3, r = 7
B. p = 7, q = 3, r = 2
C. p = 2, q = 7, r = 3
D. p = 3, q = 2, r = 7

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