Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 6
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Exercise 17 Page 36

How can you write 28 as the product of two natural numbers?

1* 28, 2* 14, and 4* 7

Practice makes perfect
The factors of a number are any natural numbers we can multiply to get that number. A factor pair of a number is two integers that result in the given number when multiplied together. Let's write 28 as the product of two numbers in as many ways as possible.
28 Written as a Product of Two Numbers Factor Pair
1 * 28=28 1 and 28
2 * 14=28 2 and 14
4 * 7=28 4 and 7

We found that 28 has four factor pairs. 1* 28, 2* 14, 4* 7