Integers

[splodge707]

heya
i was wondering if anyone could help me, i am sitting my GCSE's next yea and am currently doing quadratic graphs, im am just managing to do them but as i have got parents evening soon i have decided to get all of the homework off of my teacher to catch up, the main problem i am having is with a piece about integers please could someone give me some help on how to do them :P

thanks, splodge707 :)

[StuartS]

An integer is a whole number, positive or negative.

Surely though you want to know more than this.

Can you give more details of a question that you are stuck on.

[splodge707]

well the questions are just is entitled 'integers' but then goes on to questions about factors and multiples of numbers. thanks , splodge707

[splodge707]

and An integer is a whole number, positive or negative.
how does this relate to factors and multiples, splodge707

[StuartS]

If you are asked to find the factors of a number (integer) then you are looking for integers that divide exactly into it.

For example: the factors of 12 are 1,2,3,4,6,12 as these go into 12 a whole number of times.

2 goes into 12, 6 times and so on.

Multiples of a number (integer) are the values you get when the number is multiplied by 1,2,3,4,5,6, etc

so the multiples of 3 would be
3, 6, 9, 12, 15, etc

Hope that helps