Question

3. Sarah listed all of the factors of a mystery number: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 24, 48.

What is the mystery number?

Explain how you found your answer.

Answer 1

The mystery number is 1

Explanation:

3 is a prime number meaning only 1 and 3 are factors of it.

(besides decimals)

It only makes sense for it to be 1 since the rest also have 1 as a factor