Question

Alice wants to find all the prime factors of the number you get when you multiply 17•11•13•7. She thinks she has to use a calculator to preform all the multiplications and then find the prime factorization of the resulting number. Do you agree? Why or why not

Answer 1

No, I do not agree because the value 17, 11, 13, and 7 are already prime numbers. The product of these numbers [17×11×13×7] is called the product of prime factors. There is no need to calculate the answer to factorize it again.