MATH MASTERS ANALYZE THIS Factors and Multiples Melanie Alvarez Rourke Educational Media rourkeeducationalmedia com Scan for Related Titles and Teacher Resources A
What are Factors Factors are numbers that are multiplied to get other numbers FACTOR x FACTOR PRODUCT example 5x4 20 factors 1 The Identity Property of Multiplication sometimes called the Multiplication Property of One says that a number does not change if it is multiplied by 1 This means that even a number as large as 10 million multiplied by 1 will be itself 10 million 4
The factors of 20 are the numbers that you can multiply by in order to get 20 Here are the basic facts that have 20 as an answer 1 x 20 20 20 x 1 20 2 x 10 20 10 x 2 20 4 x 5 20 5 x 4 20 20 5
