How do you find the prime factorization of 88?

We note that '88' is an even number, because it ends in '8' , an even number.

So it will divide by '2'

Hence

2)88

2)44

2)22

11)11

=1

Reduce to '1'

Then the prime factors are 2 x 2 x 2 x11 = 2^(3) x 11