understanding basic recursion

Question

public static void main (String[] args)
{
    System.out.println(factorial(5));
}

public int factorial(int n)
{
    if(n <= 1){
        return 1;
    }
    else{         


        

Answer 1

....then 3 * (3-1)..... until it gets to 1 which will just return 1 right?

right, but it returns that '1' to the next-to-last invocation, which will multiply by two, returning '2'... to the next-to-next-to-last, which will multiply by three.....