Prime factorization is a way of expressing a number as a product of its prime factors. A prime number is a number that has exactly two factors, 1 and the number itself.
For example, if we take the number 30. We know that 30 = 5 × 6, but 6 is not a prime number. The number 6 can further be factorized as 2 × 3, where 2 and 3 are prime numbers. Therefore, the prime factorization of 30 = 2 × 3 × 5, where all the factors are prime numbers.
Let us take another example and solve for its prime factorization
Prime factorization of 72
Hence, the prime factorization of 72 = 2³×3².
Finally,