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# How many positive integers less than 5,000 are evenly divisi

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How many positive integers less than 5,000 are evenly divisible by neither 15 nor 21?

A. 4,514
B. 4,475
C. 4,521
D. 4,428
E. 4,349
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Re: Integers less than 5,000 are not divisible by 15 or 21 ? [#permalink]

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12 Jul 2011, 21:56
See # 79 in this :
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integers less than 5000 divisible by 15 5000/15 =333.something , so 333

integers less than 5000 divisible by 21 5000/21 = 238.## , so 238

we have double counted some, so take LCM of 15 and 21 =105 and divide by 5000, we get 47. so all numbers divisible by 15 and 21 = 333 +238 -47 =524

now subtract that from 4999. 4999- 524 = 4475 answer B.
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04 Apr 2014, 05:10
Aj85 wrote:
integers less than 5000 divisible by 15 5000/15 =333.something , so 333

integers less than 5000 divisible by 21 5000/21 = 238.## , so 238

we have double counted some, so take LCM of 15 and 21 =105 and divide by 5000, we get 47. so all numbers divisible by 15 and 21 = 333 +238 -47 =524

now subtract that from 4999. 4999- 524 = 4475 answer B.

Question here, why don't you multiply 47*2

I thought that 105 was contained in both 15 and 21? Is there any reason why you don't do this?
Thanks
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jlgdr wrote:
Aj85 wrote:
integers less than 5000 divisible by 15 5000/15 =333.something , so 333

integers less than 5000 divisible by 21 5000/21 = 238.## , so 238

we have double counted some, so take LCM of 15 and 21 =105 and divide by 5000, we get 47. so all numbers divisible by 15 and 21 = 333 +238 -47 =524

now subtract that from 4999. 4999- 524 = 4475 answer B.

Question here, why don't you multiply 47*2

I thought that 105 was contained in both 15 and 21? Is there any reason why you don't do this?
Thanks
Cheers
J

47 numbers are counted TWICE, we need them to be counted ONCE, so that's why are subtracting 47 once.

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Re: Integers less than 5,000 are not divisible by 15 or 21 ? [#permalink]

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04 Apr 2014, 20:57
Bunuel wrote:
jlgdr wrote:
Aj85 wrote:
integers less than 5000 divisible by 15 5000/15 =333.something , so 333

integers less than 5000 divisible by 21 5000/21 = 238.## , so 238

we have double counted some, so take LCM of 15 and 21 =105 and divide by 5000, we get 47. so all numbers divisible by 15 and 21 = 333 +238 -47 =524

now subtract that from 4999. 4999- 524 = 4475 answer B.

Question here, why don't you multiply 47*2

I thought that 105 was contained in both 15 and 21? Is there any reason why you don't do this?
Thanks
Cheers
J

47 numbers are counted TWICE, we need them to be counted ONCE, so that's why are subtracting 47 once.

Similar questions to practice:
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what-is-the-total-number-of-positive-integers-that-are-less-128104.html
how-many-integers-from-1-to-200-inclusive-are-divisib-109333.html
how-many-even-integers-n-where-100-n-200-are-divisib-103779.html

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Hi Bunuel,
Is there a shorter way around this question?This approach took me 5 minutes!
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04 Apr 2014, 20:59
Option B.(Took 5 minutes to solve with the following approach!)
All nos. from $$1$$ to $$5000$$ since we're given POSITIVE integers.$$=4999$$
Multiples of $$15$$ in this range$$=4995/15=333$$
Multiples of $$21=4998/21=238$$
Multiples of both $$15$$ and $$21$$=multiples of $$105=47$$
Now $$answer=4999-333-238+47=4475$$
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Option B.(Took 5 minutes to solve with the following approach!)
All nos. from $$1$$ to $$5000$$ since we're given POSITIVE integers.$$=4999$$
Multiples of $$15$$ in this range$$=4995/15=333$$
Multiples of $$21=4998/21=238$$
Multiples of both $$15$$ and $$21$$=multiples of $$105=47$$
Now $$answer=4999-333-238+47=4475$$

This seems to be one of those killer problems that aren't necessarily conceptually difficult, but unless you have (what for me is) very high-powered arithmetic (long division) skills you're going to be in a time crunch here and in danger of compromising your quant section on test day. Practice, practice, practice those fundamentals!

One trick, because the ACs are so close together, is that you want to be careful to account for the fact that "less than 5000" accounts for only 4,999 integers, not including 5000. (Turns out on this problem it's not of such great concern, but on many other problems, it definitely is!) For this question, huge waste of about 20-30 seconds was the initial rephrase: "How many integers.. divisible by NEITHER 15 or 21." Don't know why but that tripped me up. Do they mean all of the numbers not divisible by 105 (Neither 15 AND 21, I saw the language trick there and ruled this out but not after wasting some time on math). What were are therefore looking for is Opposite: 4999 (minus) all the numbers that 15 or 21 go into (minus) overlap between multiples of 15 and 21. Let the long division begin!
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21 Nov 2014, 18:11
hey Bunuel,
What does evenly divisible number means? I thought the quotient for such division should be multiple of 2.

Thanks,
Amit

Bunuel wrote:
jlgdr wrote:
Aj85 wrote:
integers less than 5000 divisible by 15 5000/15 =333.something , so 333

integers less than 5000 divisible by 21 5000/21 = 238.## , so 238

we have double counted some, so take LCM of 15 and 21 =105 and divide by 5000, we get 47. so all numbers divisible by 15 and 21 = 333 +238 -47 =524

now subtract that from 4999. 4999- 524 = 4475 answer B.

Question here, why don't you multiply 47*2

I thought that 105 was contained in both 15 and 21? Is there any reason why you don't do this?
Thanks
Cheers
J

47 numbers are counted TWICE, we need them to be counted ONCE, so that's why are subtracting 47 once.

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what-is-the-number-of-integers-from-1-to-1000-inclusive-126153.html
what-is-the-total-number-of-positive-integers-that-are-less-128104.html
how-many-integers-from-1-to-200-inclusive-are-divisib-109333.html
how-many-even-integers-n-where-100-n-200-are-divisib-103779.html

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22 Nov 2014, 05:36
Amit0507 wrote:
hey Bunuel,
What does evenly divisible number means? I thought the quotient for such division should be multiple of 2.

Thanks,
Amit

Nope.

Evenly divisible means divisible without a remainder, so simply divisible.
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21 Feb 2017, 12:49
Bunuel wrote:
jlgdr wrote:
Aj85 wrote:
integers less than 5000 divisible by 15 5000/15 =333.something , so 333

integers less than 5000 divisible by 21 5000/21 = 238.## , so 238

we have double counted some, so take LCM of 15 and 21 =105 and divide by 5000, we get 47. so all numbers divisible by 15 and 21 = 333 +238 -47 =524

now subtract that from 4999. 4999- 524 = 4475 answer B.

Question here, why don't you multiply 47*2

I thought that 105 was contained in both 15 and 21? Is there any reason why you don't do this?
Thanks
Cheers
J

47 numbers are counted TWICE, we need them to be counted ONCE, so that's why are subtracting 47 once.

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http://gmatclub.com/forum/what-is-the-t ... 28104.html
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http://gmatclub.com/forum/how-many-even ... 03779.html

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In questions like these do we always have to take an LCM ?
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