Lesson 1: Understanding Factors and Factor Pairs

Property

Factors are numbers that are multiplied together to get a product.
If $a \times b = c$, then $a$ and $b$ are factors of $c$.
The set $(a, b)$ is called a factor pair of $c$.

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Property

A number, $b$, is a factor of another number, $a$, if the division of $a$ by $b$ results in a remainder of $0$.

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Property

If a number is expressed as a product of factors, you can multiply those factors together in groups to find new factors. If $N = a \times b \times c$, then the product $(a \times b)$ is also a factor of $N$.

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