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How many prime numbers between 1 and 100 are factors of 7,150?

A. One
B. Two
C. Three
D. Four
E. Five
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I also got 2,5,7,11 and 13 but it took me more than the two minutes to break down 143 into 11 and 13. 2,5 and 7 were the easier ones. I'm sure many will agree at in times of stress, the mind starts to play tricks. At first I stopped after 7 and thought that 143 cannot be factored further and chose C as the answer i.e. 3 prime factors but then got the other two in over the two mins.

Therefore, is there a quick way to get the prime factors of a large number?

Thanks.

Generally there is no easy way to check whether some very large number is a prime (well if it doesn't have some small primes, which are easy to check). You'll need a computer to do this.

Next, the GMAT won't give you a large number to factorize if there is no shortcut for that.

For example in our original question after you find 2, 5, and 7, just check for the next prime 11: 143/11=13.

You can also use divisibility rule for 11: if you sum every second digit and then subtract all other digits and the answer is divisible by 11, then the number is divisible by 11. So, for 143: (1+3)-4=0 --> 0 is divisible by 11 thus 143 is divisible by 11.

Or, you can notice that 143=130+13=13*10+13, so 143 must be divisible by 13.

So, as you can see there are plenty of shortcuts to get prime factorization of the numbers from the GMAT problems.

For more on divisibility rules and on verifying the primality check Number Theory chapter of Math Book: math-number-theory-88376.html

Hope it helps.
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Hate to play devil's advocate here, but the question doesn't clarify how many UNIQUE prime numbers are factors of 7150. (Which would change the answer to five). Am I missing something?
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Hate to play devil's advocate here, but the question doesn't clarify how many UNIQUE prime numbers are factors of 7150. (Which would change the answer to five). Am I missing something?

How many prime numbers between 1 and 100 are factors of 7,150?
A. One
B. Two
C. Three
D. Four
E. Five

Make prime factorization of 7,150 --> 7,150=2*5^2*11*13. So 4 prime numbers between 1 and 100 (namely 2, 5, 11, and 13) are factors of 7,150 (you shouldn't count one prime factor twice).

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Hate to play devil's advocate here, but the question doesn't clarify how many UNIQUE prime numbers are factors of 7150. (Which would change the answer to five). Am I missing something?

Yes, you are! Read the question again:
How many prime numbers between 1 and 100 are factors of 7,150?

The prime numbers between 1 and 100 are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19... etc

5 appears only once between 1 and 100 so there is absolutely no confusion. Out of these 25 prime numbers, only 4 are factors of 7150: 2, 5, 11 and 13
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I also got 2,5,7,11 and 13 but it took me more than the two minutes to break down 143 into 11 and 13. 2,5 and 7 were the easier ones. I'm sure many will agree at in times of stress, the mind starts to play tricks. At first I stopped after 7 and thought that 143 cannot be factored further and chose C as the answer i.e. 3 prime factors but then got the other two in over the two mins.

Therefore, is there a quick way to get the prime factors of a large number?

Thanks.
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I also got 2,5,7,11 and 13 but it took me more than the two minutes to break down 143 into 11 and 13. 2,5 and 7 were the easier ones. I'm sure many will agree at in times of stress, the mind starts to play tricks. At first I stopped after 7 and thought that 143 cannot be factored further and chose C as the answer i.e. 3 prime factors but then got the other two in over the two mins.

Therefore, is there a quick way to get the prime factors of a large number?

Thanks.

Sadly, you will need to check for all prime numbers till the square root of the given number. We don't know the square root of 143 but we can approximate it. 143 is very close to 144. The square root of 144 is 12 so you will need to check for all prime numbers less than 12. If none of the prime numbers less than 12 is a factor of 143, then you can say that 143 is prime. So the question is not over till you don't check for 11 too.

So basically, you need to check for all prime factors less than $$\sqrt{n}$$ to figure out whether n is prime. If you are not sure why, check out these posts for details on factors:
http://www.veritasprep.com/blog/2010/12 ... ly-number/
http://www.veritasprep.com/blog/2010/12 ... t-squares/
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19 Jan 2015, 10:20
So, just to clarify this, if the question only asks for the factors we count all of the factors, no matter if there are repetitions.

Only when it specifically says that we need the "unique" factors should we diregard repeating factors.

Right?
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pacifist85 wrote:
So, just to clarify this, if the question only asks for the factors we count all of the factors, no matter if there are repetitions.

Only when it specifically says that we need the "unique" factors should we diregard repeating factors.

Right?

Not really.
Take the example of factors of 8:

How many total factors does 8 have and what are they?
They are 1, 2, 4 and 8 - a total of 4 factors

We know that 8 = 2^3 but we don't say that factors are 8 are 1, 2, 2, 2, 4 and 8.

Similarly, if we are asked - how many prime factors does 8 have? I will answer only 1 (the prime factor is 2). The number of prime factors of 8 are not 3 (not 2, 2, 2). I know of people who are not very convinced with this and hence, I assume that GMAT will insert the word "unique" to remove all doubts.

On GMAT, I would expect it to be - How many unique prime factors does 8 have?

In the original question, there is no doubt since they ask "how many prime numbers are factors of..." The set of prime numbers does not have multiple entries and hence there is no doubt that we are talking about unique prime factors only.
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How many prime numbers between 1 and 100 are factors of 7,150 ?

(A) One
(B) Two
(C) Three
(D) Four
(E) Five

Make prime factorization of 7,150 --> $$7,150=2*5^2*11*13$$. So, 4 prime numbers between 1 and 100 (namely 2, 5, 11, and 13) are factors of 7,150.

Bunuel,

Do you have any fast tricks to understand that 7,150 is divisible by 11 and 13?

The only silly mistake I made was to miss 11 and 13 as prime factors of 7150.

Thank you!
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Hi elisabettaportioli,

The speed with which you 'prime-factor' 7150 into its 'pieces' is likely going to be influenced by the 'first' number you factor out.

Looking at 7150, you could easily start with a 2 (because 7150 is even), a 5 (because 7150 ends in a 0) or a 10 (also since it ends in a 0).

I actually started with 50, since 50 divides into 100 twice.....7100 = (71x2) fifties....

So 7150 = 142 fifties + 1 fifty =
(50)(143)

The (50) can be quickly broken down into (2)(5)(5)

Now, looking at the 143, we know that NO even numbers will divide in (since even numbers do NOT divide into odd numbers). If you know the 'rule of 3', then you know that 3 does NOT divide in. Since 3 doesn't divide in, 9 won't divide in either. 5 won't divide in for obvious reasons. Thus, we're really left with just a handful of possibilities:

1) 143 might be prime
2) 7, 11 and/or 13 might divide in

It's pretty easy to eliminate 7 as an option (it divides into 14, but not 3). Once you find that 11 divides in, you end up with the 13 by default.

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EMPOWERgmatRichC, Bunuel, VeritasPrepKarishma:

Here is my method (and I am guessing this is not the right approach, but wanted to confirm):

7150 = 7000 + 150
7000 = 7 * 1000 (so we have 7, 5 & 2)
150 = 3 * 50 (so we have 3, 5 & 2)

combining both we have 2, 3, 5 & 7 as prime numbers.

At the end, I am still getting the same number of prime numbers for 7150, albeit different values (maybe coincidence).

I will be trying this with the next similar questions I come across, till then any help....greatly appreciated.
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Hi colorblind,

Unfortunately, that logic is NOT correct (and it was lucky that you ended up with the correct answer). Here's a simple example that proves the logic is NOT correct.

17 has one prime factor: 17

Using the logic you described...
17 = 10+7
10 has prime factors of 2 and 5 and 7 has one prime factor: 7

However, these prime factors (re: 2, 5 and 7) are NOT the same prime factors of 17 (re: 17) and the NUMBER of prime factors is also different.

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How many prime numbers between 1 and 100 are factors of 7,150 ?

(A) One
(B) Two
(C) Three
(D) Four
(E) Five

Hello Everyone Can anyone suggest divisibility rule by 7, 11, and 13 ? Thanks!
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How many prime numbers between 1 and 100 are factors of 7,150 ?

(A) One
(B) Two
(C) Three
(D) Four
(E) Five

Hello Everyone Can anyone suggest divisibility rule by 7, 11, and 13 ? Thanks!

It's unlikely that you'll need those but you can check them here: https://gmatclub.com/forum/math-number- ... ml#p666609
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