What are the Factors of 1000?

The following are the different types of factors of 1000:

• Factors of 1000: 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 20, 25, 40, 50, 100, 125, 200, 250, 500, 1000

• Sum of Factors of 1000: 2340

• Negative Factors of 1000: -1, -2, -4, -5, -8, -10, -20, -25, -40, -50, -100, -125, -200, -250, -500, -1000

• Prime Factors of 1000: 2, 5

• Prime Factorization of 1000: 2^3 × 5^3

There are two ways to find the factors of 1000: using factor pairs, and using prime factorization.

Factor pairs of 1000 are any two numbers that, when multiplied together, equal 1000. The question to ask is “what two numbers multiplied together equal 1000?” Every factor can be paired with another factor, and multiplying the two will result in 1000.

To find the factor pairs of 1000, follow these steps:

Step 1:

Find the smallest prime number that is larger than 1, and is a factor of 1000. For reference, the first prime numbers to check are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, and 13. In this case, the smallest factor that’s a prime number larger than 1 is 2.

Step 2:

Divide 1000 by the smallest prime factor, in this case, 2:

1000 ÷ 2 = 500

2 and 500 will make a new factor pair.

Step 3:

Repeat Steps 1 and 2, using 500 as the new focus. Find the smallest prime factor that isn’t 1, and divide 500 by that number. In this case, 2 is the new smallest prime factor:

500 ÷ 2 = 250

Remember that this new factor pair is only for the factors of 500, not 1000. So, to finish the factor pair for 1000, you’d multiply 2 and 2 before pairing with 250:

2 x 2 = 4

Step 4:

Repeat this process until there are no longer any prime factors larger than one to divide by. At the end, you should have the full list of factor pairs.

Here are all the factor pairs for 1000:

(1, 1000), (2, 500), (4, 250), (5, 200), (8, 125), (10, 100), (20, 50), (25, 40)

So, to list all the factors of 1000: 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 20, 25, 40, 50, 100, 125, 200, 250, 500, 1000

The negative factors of 1000 would be: -1, -2, -4, -5, -8, -10, -20, -25, -40, -50, -100, -125, -200, -250, -500, -1000

To find the Prime factorization of 1000, we break down all the factors of 1000 until we are left with only prime factors. We then express n as a product of multiplying the prime factors together.

The process of finding the prime factorization of 1000 only has a few differences from the above method of finding the factors of 1000. Instead of ensuring we find the right factor pairs, we continue to factor each step until we are left with only the list of smallest prime factors greater than 1.

Here are the steps for finding the prime factorization of 1000:

Step 1:

Find the smallest prime number that is larger than 1, and is a factor of 1000. For reference, the first prime numbers to check are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, and 13. In this case, the smallest factor that’s a prime number larger than 1 is 2.

Step 2:

Divide 1000 by the smallest prime factor, in this case, 2

1000 ÷ 2 = 500

2 becomes the first number in our prime factorization.

Step 3:

Repeat Steps 1 and 2, using 500 as the new focus. Find the smallest prime factor that isn’t 1, and divide 500 by that number. The smallest prime factor you pick for 500 will then be the next prime factor. If you keep repeating this process, there will be a point where there will be no more prime factors left, which leaves you with the prime factors for prime factorization.

So, the unique prime factors of 1000 are: 2, 5

Practice your factoring skills by exploring how to factor other numbers, like the ones below:

Factors of 121 - The factors of 121 are 1, 11, 121

Factors of 106 - The factors of 106 are 1, 2, 53, 106

Factors of 117 - The factors of 117 are 1, 3, 9, 13, 39, 117

Factors of 81 - The factors of 81 are 1, 3, 9, 27, 81