Recent content by jman115

"Any combination of products with these prime factors will yield a composite factor of the original number." I stated this fact in my opening thread. I am asking why this works. When you multiply all combinations of the prime factors you get all the composite factors of that number. I want to...

When I teach GCF to students, I show them how to find via the prime factorization and explain to them how the PF can get you all the factors of a number by multiplying different combinations of the Prime Factors and then proceed to explain why they are supposed to multiply the common Prime...