Three students need to produce a prime factorization of 48. Donna states that the first factors in the tree should be 6 and 8. L
arry states that the first factors in the tree should be 4 and 12. Trish states that the initial factors of 48 do not affect the prime factorization. Explain why Trish is correct.
Trish is correct because whatever number starts the tree equals 48 anyway. The numbers that matters is if you follow through when factoring out the whole tree of 48.
