Question

Can someone please help me with this? Tysm!!

Answer 1

Answer: 100 = 2^3*5^2

Notice how 2^3 = 2*2*2 = 8 and 5^2 = 5*5 = 25

So 8*25 = 200 instead of 100.

The correct factorization of 100 is 100 = 2^2*5^2