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5 Prime factorisation
Homework
1 What numbers do these represent?
a 3 × 52 b 22 × 32 × 72 c 33 × 52 d 23 × 3 × 112
2 Write each of these numbers as a product of prime factors.
a 72 b 90 c 75 d 115 e 465
3 756 = 22 × 33 × 7
Use this fact to write these numbers as a product of prime numbers.
a 378 b 7560 c 15 120
4 Explain why you cannot express 101 as a product of prime factors.
5 Here is a number pattern:
6, 45, 175
Use prime factorisation to help you write the next two numbers in the sequence.
6 Match each number to the correct product of prime factors.
400 32 × 53
675 33 × 52
1000 24 × 52
1125 23 × 53
7 Find the largest number less than 100 that has three different prime factors and express it as a
product of primes.
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