LEARNING OBJECTIVES
This lesson will help you to:
- recognize and learn factors and multiples.
- understand how to find factors and multiples.
- understand the real life applications of factors andmultiples.
- understand and draw factor trees.
- find common factors and multiples of two numbers.
Real - Life Example
- We are surrounded by numbers in each & every sphere of our life. Factors & multiples are also commonly used in our everyday lives. We use factors when we want to arrange things in different ways. For example, arranging books in rows & columns, making groups of children in different ways etc.
QUICK CONCEPT REVIEW
FACTORS
It was picture day in Ria's school. Her teacher made all the students stand in a single line. But all of them couldnot come in the frame.
This way also all the students were not fitting in the frame.
Then she made 4 lines of 5 each. Now all the students could fit in the frame.
So here we saw three different ways to make 20 students stand in lines.
The first way is \[1\times 20\]
The second way is \[2\times 10\]
& the third way is \[5\times 4\]
Therefore, we can say that 1,20,2, 5 & 4 are the factors of 20.
Definition of factors: The factors of a number are thosewhich divide the number without leaving any remainder.
Thus, factors of a number divide the number completely,
Note: A number can have many factors.
- Prime factors: Factors of a number which areprime are called its prime factors.
- Prime factorization: A factosation in whichevery factor is prime is called prime factorization of the number.
- Co-prime: Two numbers are co-prime if they haveonly 1 as the common factor.
FACTOR TREE:
- A Factor Tree is a diagram which is used to break down a number by dividing it by its factors until all the numbers.
- We can make different factor tress of a same number.
Example 1: A factor tree of 8 is given in figure A. Here 8 has been broken into 2 factors 4 A 2. But 4 is not a prime number. 4 is again broken into 2 factors 2 & 2 as shown in
figure - A. Therefore, the factors of 8 are 2, 2 A 2.
Example 2: We can make factor trees of a same number 60 in different ways as shown in figures - B, C and D:
Fig.-B: This is a factor tree of 60. Here 60 has been broken into two factors 6 & 10. But 6 & 10 are not prime numbers. 6 & 10 are again broken into two factors each. 6 is broken in 2 & 3
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