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How to Find Factors of a Number?
Knowing how to calculate factors of a number is extremely crucial in maths. The steps to find the factors of a number are given below in a very easy to understand way. An example is taken to make the explanation easier.
Find the factors of 16.
Step 1 :- Write the numbers from 1 to 16
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16
Step 2 :- Check now, which number can divide the 16 equally from the above list of numbers.
16/1 = 16
16/2 = 8
16/3 = fraction
In the same way, divide 16 by each of these numbers.
Step 3 :- Hence, we get the factors of 16 are 1,2,4,8, and 16
Shortcut Method :-
Consider the number as 40.
40 = 10 × 4
⇒ (5 × 2) × 4
⇒(5 × 2) × (2 × 2)
⇒ (5 × 2) × (2 × 2)
Now, the factors of 40 will include all the combination from 5 × 2 × 2 × 2 and 1 itself (as 1 × 40 = 40). So, the positive factors of 40 are 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 20, and 40. It should be noted that there will also be negative factors whose count has to be even.
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