Respuesta :

The trick is to just keep factoring out 2 until you get all prime numbers.

72 = 36 * 2
36 = 18 * 2
18 = 9 * 2
9 = 3 * 3

Therefore, the answer is:
72 = 2 * 2 * 2 * 3 * 3

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