Find the Prime Factorization 500

$500$

Step 1

$500$ has factors of $2$ and $250$ .

$2 \cdot 250$

Step 2

$250$ has factors of $2$ and $125$ .

$2 \cdot 2 \cdot 125$

Step 3

$125$ has factors of $5$ and $25$ .

$2 \cdot 2 \cdot 5 \cdot 25$

Step 4

$25$ has factors of $5$ and $5$ .

$2 \cdot 2 \cdot 5 \cdot 5 \cdot 5$