Factoring Whole Numbers and Reducing Fractions

Each of the problems below is a link. If you click on the problem, it will take you to a YouTube video of a full, step-by-step solution for the problem. You may try these problems as practice and use the videos to check your answer, or you can just watch the videos to see more worked-out example problems.

Find the prime factorization of each number: 50, 72, 108, and 143
Simplify the following fractions: 24 over 180, 75 over 120, 12 over 64, 17 over 85, and 500 over 15000