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If 3 is one of the factors of the product 177, what is the other factor?

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We can write 177 as the product of 2 factors:


3\cdot x=177

We can find the other factor by dividing 177 by 3:

The result is 59, that is a prime number.

So the 2 factors of 177 are 3 and 59.

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