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Imagine the temperature outdoors is a sweltering 33 degrees Celsius. The weatherman reports that there every 11 days the temperature will reduce a certain amount until it gets to zero degrees Celsius.
You want to determine how many degrees the temperature will drop during each of those 11 days if it drops at an average rate from the original 33 degrees.
If you want to figure out the answer to this question, you will need to know how to divide, or you can find the factors of the original temperature number, which is 33.
Factors of 33 are 1, 3, 11 and 33
The factors of 33 can be determined by finding all of the numbers from 1 to 33 that can evenly divide into the number, 33, without having a remainder. If there is a remainder, then that number is not a factor of 33. Let’s look at a visual of the factors of 33.
So, according to the visual above, there are three different grouped objects. The first group includes two different factors for 33. It represents 1 group of 33 stars or 33 individual groups of 1 star each.
For the next group to the right of this first group shows 3 big groups. Each of the big groups has 11 stars in it. Finally, the bottom group shows 11 groups. In each of these groups is 3 stars.
Therefore, the factors of 33 is only four numbers: 1, 3, 11, and 33. Each factor has a factor partner. This means that the number multiplied to its factor partner will equal 33. So, 1 and 33 are factor partners, and 3 and 11 are factor partners.
You want to buy a refrigerator for your kitchen. The space where the refrigerator should be needs to be measured before buying a refrigerator. However, you forgot to do that. So, you are at the appliance store and must make the decision to buy a refrigerator. Of course, they are having an in-store sale just that day. The store is about to close. You must make a decision. You remember that there are tiles behind refrigerator space. You know that there are 11 small tiles across. Use the factors of 33 to find out at least how many inches each tile needs to be for you to buy that 33-inch refrigerator.
Each tile should be at least 3 inches across. Then the 11 tiles will be 33 inches across. Of course, if you are buying a refrigerator, it is best to have a little room on either side of the refrigerator. You don’t want the measurements to be exact.
There are 33 restaurants in your city. As a food critic, you need to taste the food at each of these restaurants over the next 3 days. How many restaurants must you visit in each of those 3 days? Do you think it will be possible? Use factors to explain your answer.
Using the factors, you will have to go to 11 restaurants each of those three days. Depending upon how close the restaurants are depends upon if you can make this happen. Hopefully, you won’t be eating a whole meal at each of these restaurants. Three and eleven are factor partners, so when you multiply them together, they will equal 33.
In a book, there are 33 pages in it. If there are an average of 150 words on each page, how many words will there be total? Instead of multiplying such a large number, use the factors of 33 to break down this multiplication problem.
To do this, you will need to use the factors of 33. Let’s use 3 and multiply 11 times 150. This would be 1,650. Then you will need to multiply this by 3. This would be 4, 950.
If a number is an odd number, then this means that two will not be a factor for it. If the number was an even number, then it would be a factor for it. After that, you will need to look at each number from 3 until that number like 33 to see if you can divide into this number without having a remainder. If there is a remainder, then the number is not a factor of 33.
To factor a number like 33, first know that the number 1 and the number itself, 33, are factors themselves. After that, you must divide each number from 3 to 32 to see if it will divide evenly into 33. You can probably guess that some of the numbers that are close to 33 will not divide into 33 evenly because they are too close to that number. For example, number 32, 31, 30, etc. will not divide evenly into it because they can only divide once into 33. Then they will have a remainder. For 33, 3 can evenly divide into 33 without having a remainder. Its factor partner is 11 because 3 times 11 equals 33. After that, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 do not divide evenly into 33 because there would be a remainder for each of those numbers. Once you narrow the factors down to the highest and lowest factor, then you just have to look at those numbers for factors.
You may use factoring with the number 33 at any time that there is a math problem or word problem involving 33 of something. Then the problem would need to have the group of 33 to be divided into groups. When this takes place, then there will the need for factoring. There are some things that come in groups of 33 usually randomly like 33 students in a large class or 33 people at a store. However, there are not groups of things that usually come in groups of 33.
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