What three numbers multiply to get 42?

What three numbers multiply to get 42? In other words, you want to know all the combinations of 3 numbers that can be multiplied to get 42. You want to know what all the question marks in the equation below can be in order for the equation to be true:

? × ? × ? = 42

First, note that all numbers must be 42 or less, which means that there are 42 × 42 × 42 possible solutions. Thus, to get the answer to "What three numbers multiply to get 42?" we looked at 74,088 different combinations to see which ones equal 42.

When we looked at all those combinations, we found 27 different combinations of 3 numbers that equal 42 when multiplied together. Here are all 3 number combinations that you can multiply to get 42:

42 × 1 × 1 = 42
21 × 2 × 1 = 42
21 × 1 × 2 = 42
14 × 3 × 1 = 42
14 × 1 × 3 = 42
7 × 6 × 1 = 42
7 × 3 × 2 = 42
7 × 2 × 3 = 42
7 × 1 × 6 = 42
6 × 7 × 1 = 42
6 × 1 × 7 = 42
3 × 14 × 1 = 42
3 × 7 × 2 = 42
3 × 2 × 7 = 42
3 × 1 × 14 = 42
2 × 21 × 1 = 42
2 × 7 × 3 = 42
2 × 3 × 7 = 42
2 × 1 × 21 = 42
1 × 42 × 1 = 42
1 × 21 × 2 = 42
1 × 14 × 3 = 42
1 × 7 × 6 = 42
1 × 6 × 7 = 42
1 × 3 × 14 = 42
1 × 2 × 21 = 42
1 × 1 × 42 = 42

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