Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 6
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3. Prime Factorization
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Exercise 3 Page 16

How can you write 51 as the product of two natural numbers?

1 and 51, 3 and 17

Practice makes perfect
The factors of a number are any natural numbers we can multiply to get that number. Let's write 51 as the product of two numbers in as many ways as possible.
51 Written as a Product of Two Numbers Factors
1 * 51=51 1 and 51
3 * 17=51 3 and 17

We found that 51 has 2 pairs of factors.