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Factors, Multiples
and Primes
Numbers occur all around us in many formats and circumstances. For example, your
house number, a phone number, a televison channel number, your password or prices
on shop items. It is important to understand the properties of numbers such as factors,
multiples, prime numbers, squares and square roots to help us in everyday situations.
[This makes tasks such as working out how many movie tickets you can buy, or how
uch time until the next train arrives, easier and quicker.
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