What are the Factors of 128?

The following are the different types of factors of 128:

• Factors of 128: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128

• Sum of Factors of 128: 255

• Negative Factors of 128: -1, -2, -4, -8, -16, -32, -64, -128

• Prime Factors of 128: 2

• Prime Factorization of 128: 2^7

There are two ways to find the factors of 128: using factor pairs, and using prime factorization.

Factor pairs of 128 are any two numbers that, when multiplied together, equal 128. The question to ask is “what two numbers multiplied together equal 128?” Every factor can be paired with another factor, and multiplying the two will result in 128.

To find the factor pairs of 128, follow these steps:

Step 1:

Find the smallest prime number that is larger than 1, and is a factor of 128. 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 128 by the smallest prime factor, in this case, 2:

128 ÷ 2 = 64

2 and 64 will make a new factor pair.

Step 3:

Repeat Steps 1 and 2, using 64 as the new focus. Find the smallest prime factor that isn’t 1, and divide 64 by that number. In this case, 2 is the new smallest prime factor:

64 ÷ 2 = 32

Remember that this new factor pair is only for the factors of 64, not 128. So, to finish the factor pair for 128, you’d multiply 2 and 2 before pairing with 32:

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 128:

(1, 128), (2, 64), (4, 32), (8, 16)

So, to list all the factors of 128: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128

The negative factors of 128 would be: -1, -2, -4, -8, -16, -32, -64, -128

To find the Prime factorization of 128, we break down all the factors of 128 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 128 only has a few differences from the above method of finding the factors of 128. 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 128:

Step 1:

Find the smallest prime number that is larger than 1, and is a factor of 128. 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 128 by the smallest prime factor, in this case, 2

128 ÷ 2 = 64

2 becomes the first number in our prime factorization.

Step 3:

Repeat Steps 1 and 2, using 64 as the new focus. Find the smallest prime factor that isn’t 1, and divide 64 by that number. The smallest prime factor you pick for 64 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 128 are: 2

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

Factors of 62 - The factors of 62 are 1, 2, 31, 62

Factors of 103 - The factors of 103 are 1, 103

Factors of 79 - The factors of 79 are 1, 79

Factors of 33 - The factors of 33 are 1, 3, 11, 33