Question

which numbers are not included in the prime factorization of a composite number

Answer 1

here is your answer which is 1

Answer 2

Prime factorization shows you the only way a number can be factored. The process of prime factorization breaks down a composite number into the prime numbers that, when multiplied together, give you that composite number. Every number’s prime factorization is unique.

The opposite of prime numbers, composite numbers, can be broken down into factorable, reducible pieces. Whole numbers larger than 1 that aren’t prime are composite numbers.

A good way of writing out prime factorizations is to do an upside down division:

1. Put a prime factor on the outside left, and the result or quotient (the number of times it divides evenly) underneath.2. Divide the quotient (the number underneath  another prime number, and keep doing this until the bottom number is a prime.

Then you can stop. The order you do this in doesn’t matter. You get the same result or list of prime factors no matter what order you use.

Example: Determine prime factorization of 120