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Express 432 as a product of prime factors

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In order to do this, we need to start factoring out prime factors. First, we can start by taking out as many twos as we can.

2*216
2*2*108
2*2*2*54
2*2*2*2*27

Next, we take out all the 3s. Our answer becomes:

2*2*2*2*3*9

2*2*2*2*3*3*3

This should be written as
2^(4)* 3^(3)
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