OCR GCSE Mathematics · J560

Prime Factorisation

What you need to know

Identify prime numbers less than 20.
Express a whole number as a product of its prime factors (e.g., $24 = 2 \times 2 \times 2 \times 3$ ).

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Understand the uniqueness of prime factorisation for each number.

Identify prime numbers generally.

Apply power notation to express a whole number as a product of prime factors (e.g.,

600 = 2^3 \times 3 \times 5^2

).