Stage: 3 Challenge Level: 
The number $12 = 2^2 \times 3$ has 6 factors. What is the smallest natural number with exactly 36 factors?
Index notation/Indices. Common factors. Multiplication & division. Divisibility. Working systematically. Factors and multiples. Integers. Workshop. Prime factors. Properties of numbers.
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