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Gabrielle and John each wrote the prime factorization of 64 .Analyze their work and explain any errors

Gabrielle and John each wrote the prime factorization of 64 .Analyze their work and-example-1
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Gabrielle: What Gabrielle did was use a factor tree to factor out the prime numbers. 64=8*8, then Gabrielle found the factors for 8, 2 and 4. And 2 is prime so now Gabrielle will factor 4 which is 2 and 2. 2 is prime so he stopped there. Then he multiplied all of the prime numbers to get 64

John:

What John did was find factors for 64 with at least one prime number. 2 is prime so he did 2*32, left the two there and factored out 32 using a prime number which was to. 2*2*16, factor out sixteen, 2*2*2*8 then factor out 8. 2*2*2*2*4, factor out 4, 2*2*2*2*2

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