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Re: Find the number of factors of 180 that are in the form (4*k + 2), wher [#permalink] Find the number of factors of 180 that are in the form (4*k + 2), wher   12 Dec 2017, 10:15
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Find the number of factors of 180 that are in the form (4*k + 2), where k is a non-negative integer?

A)1
B)2
C)3
D)4
E)6


4k + 2 = 2(2k + 1) = 2*odd. So, we are looking for even factors which are not multiples of 4.

180 = 2^2*3^2*5. Consider the part without 2^2. Now, 3^2*5 has (2 + 1)(1 + 1) = 6 factors: 1, 3, 5, 9, 15, 45. Any of them paired with 2 will be even factor of 180 which is not a multiple of 4, so 2, 6, 10, 18, 30 and 90.

Answer: E.
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Re: Find the number of factors of 180 that are in the form (4*k + 2), wher [#permalink] Find the number of factors of 180 that are in the form (4*k + 2), wher   12 Dec 2017, 21:16
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SandhyAvinash wrote:
Find the number of factors of 180 that are in the form (4*k + 2), where k is a non-negative integer?

A)1
B)2
C)3
D)4
E)6


4k + 2 = 2(2k + 1) = 2*odd. So, we are looking for even factors which are not multiples of 4.

180 = 2^2*3^2*5. Consider the part without 2^2. Now, 3^2*5 has (2 + 1)(1 + 1) = 6 factors: 1, 3, 5, 9, 15, 45. Any of them paired with 2 will be even factor of 180 which is not a multiple of 4, so 2, 6, 10, 18, 30 and 90.

Answer: E.

How did you got (2+1)(1+1) ?? Pls explain

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Finding the Number of Factors of an Integer

First make prime factorization of an integer \(n=a^p*b^q*c^r\), where \(a\), \(b\), and \(c\) are prime factors of \(n\) and \(p\), \(q\), and \(r\) are their powers.

The number of factors of \(n\) will be expressed by the formula \((p+1)(q+1)(r+1)\). NOTE: this will include 1 and n itself.

Example: Finding the number of all factors of 450: \(450=2^1*3^2*5^2\)

Total number of factors of 450 including 1 and 450 itself is \((1+1)*(2+1)*(2+1)=2*3*3=18\) factors.

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Re: Find the number of factors of 180 that are in the form (4*k + 2), wher [#permalink] Find the number of factors of 180 that are in the form (4*k + 2), wher   12 Dec 2017, 20:30
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SandhyAvinash wrote:
Bunuel wrote:
SandhyAvinash wrote:
Find the number of factors of 180 that are in the form (4*k + 2), where k is a non-negative integer?

A)1
B)2
C)3
D)4
E)6


4k + 2 = 2(2k + 1) = 2*odd. So, we are looking for even factors which are not multiples of 4.

180 = 2^2*3^2*5. Consider the part without 2^2. Now, 3^2*5 has (2 + 1)(1 + 1) = 6 factors: 1, 3, 5, 9, 15, 45. Any of them paired with 2 will be even factor of 180 which is not a multiple of 4, so 2, 6, 10, 18, 30 and 90.

Answer: E.


Bunuel how did you find 6 factors as 1,3,5,9,15,45. please help me in this.


I just manually listed the factors of 90 = 3^2*5. You don't have to find the factors for this question though, it's done here just to illustrate. The fact that 90 has 6 factors (does not matter what they really are) is enough to get that 180 will have twice as many even factors which are not multiples of 4.
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Re: Find the number of factors of 180 that are in the form (4*k + 2), wher [#permalink] Find the number of factors of 180 that are in the form (4*k + 2), wher   12 Dec 2017, 16:36
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SandhyAvinash wrote:
Find the number of factors of 180 that are in the form (4*k + 2), where k is a non-negative integer?

A)1
B)2
C)3
D)4
E)6


4k + 2 = 2(2k + 1) = 2*odd. So, we are looking for even factors which are not multiples of 4.

180 = 2^2*3^2*5. Consider the part without 2^2. Now, 3^2*5 has (2 + 1)(1 + 1) = 6 factors: 1, 3, 5, 9, 15, 45. Any of them paired with 2 will be even factor of 180 which is not a multiple of 4, so 2, 6, 10, 18, 30 and 90.

Answer: E.


Bunuel how did you find 6 factors as 1,3,5,9,15,45. please help me in this.
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Re: Find the number of factors of 180 that are in the form (4*k + 2), wher [#permalink] Find the number of factors of 180 that are in the form (4*k + 2), wher   12 Dec 2017, 21:09
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Find the number of factors of 180 that are in the form (4*k + 2), where k is a non-negative integer?

A)1
B)2
C)3
D)4
E)6


4k + 2 = 2(2k + 1) = 2*odd. So, we are looking for even factors which are not multiples of 4.

180 = 2^2*3^2*5. Consider the part without 2^2. Now, 3^2*5 has (2 + 1)(1 + 1) = 6 factors: 1, 3, 5, 9, 15, 45. Any of them paired with 2 will be even factor of 180 which is not a multiple of 4, so 2, 6, 10, 18, 30 and 90.

Answer: E.

How did you got (2+1)(1+1) ?? Pls explain

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Re: Find the number of factors of 180 that are in the form (4*k + 2), wher [#permalink] Find the number of factors of 180 that are in the form (4*k + 2), wher   04 Aug 2018, 21:59
There are 6 possibilities, where f(x)=4x+2 is a factor of 180.

f(0)=2
F(1)=6
f(2)=10
f(4)=18
f(7)=30
f(22)=80
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Re: Find the number of factors of 180 that are in the form (4*k + 2), wher [#permalink] Find the number of factors of 180 that are in the form (4*k + 2), wher   04 Aug 2018, 22:20
SandhyAvinash wrote:
Find the number of factors of 180 that are in the form (4*k + 2), where k is a non-negative integer?

A)1
B)2
C)3
D)4
E)6


I did this question with simple substitution like below -

we know K >=0 and is an integer.

therefore for
K = 0 ; (4*k + 2) = 2 - A factor of 180
K = 1 ; (4*k + 2) = 6 - A factor of 180
K = 2 ; (4*k + 2) = 10 - A factor of 180
K = 4 ; (4*k + 2) = 18 - A factor of 180

No we know answer can be D or E.

If I am able to find one more my answer will be E.

Hence I factorized 180 = 2x3x3x2x5

Next number after 18 I can form is 30 that will be a factor of 180 and I get that with k = 7.

Hence E.

FYI - I did this question under two minutes. So IMO not a lengthy method.
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