Hello Gacyber,
My name is Rendorforestmusic and I am here to help you out with your question!
Your question states: Which expression shows the prime factorization of 36?
In which you gave us a least of options to pick from:
2 × 2 × 3
2 × 3 × 3
2 × 2 × 2 × 3 × 3
2 × 2 × 3 × 3
Your answer would be: 2 x 2 x 3 x 3
Reasoning:
I multiplied 2 x 2 and came up with 4 from them I multiplied 4 by 3 which game me 12 then for the final step I multiplied 12 by 3 which give us 36.
Hope this helps!
Have a great day:)
~Rendorforestmusic