{"id":241262,"date":"2025-07-03T16:34:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T16:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=241262"},"modified":"2025-07-03T16:34:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T16:34:36","slug":"490-as-a-product-of-its-prime-factors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/03\/490-as-a-product-of-its-prime-factors\/","title":{"rendered":"490 as a product of its prime factors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>490 as a product of its prime factors<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-6-color\">The correct answer and explanation is:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prime factorization of 490 is: 490=2\u00d75\u00d77\u00d77490 = 2 \\times 5 \\times 7 \\times 7<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>or equivalently, 490=2\u00d75\u00d772490 = 2 \\times 5 \\times 7^2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Explanation:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To find the prime factorization of 490, we begin by dividing it by the smallest prime number, 2, since 490 is an even number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Step 1: Divide by 2<\/strong>:<br>490\u00f72=245490 \\div 2 = 245 Now, we are left with 245.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Step 2: Divide by 5<\/strong>:<br>Next, since 245 ends in a 5, it is divisible by 5.<br>245\u00f75=49245 \\div 5 = 49 Now, we are left with 49.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Step 3: Divide by 7<\/strong>:<br>49 is a perfect square of 7, so we divide it by 7 twice.<br>49\u00f77=749 \\div 7 = 7<br>7\u00f77=17 \\div 7 = 1<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that we have reached 1, we stop the division process. The prime factors of 490 are 2, 5, and 7, with 7 appearing twice. This gives us the prime factorization: 490=2\u00d75\u00d77\u00d77or490=2\u00d75\u00d772490 = 2 \\times 5 \\times 7 \\times 7 \\quad \\text{or} \\quad 490 = 2 \\times 5 \\times 7^2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This shows the complete breakdown of 490 into its prime components.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>490 as a product of its prime factors The correct answer and explanation is: The prime factorization of 490 is: 490=2\u00d75\u00d77\u00d77490 = 2 \\times 5 \\times 7 \\times 7 or equivalently, 490=2\u00d75\u00d772490 = 2 \\times 5 \\times 7^2 Explanation: To find the prime factorization of 490, we begin by dividing it by the smallest prime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}