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# How many prime numbers between 1 and 100 are factors of 7150

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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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13 Feb 2012, 19:22
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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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13 Apr 2009, 04:05
7,150 = 2 * 5 * 5 * 11 * 13

so there are 4 distinct prime numbers that are below 100, so answer D.
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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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17 Jan 2012, 04:17
Ans is D = 7150 = 2*5*5*11*13
so the prime numbers are 2,5,11,13
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18 Jan 2012, 05:24
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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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13 Feb 2012, 22:09
Good explanaation bunel 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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14 Feb 2012, 20:16
Thanks for the explanation and the additional posts Bunuel and Karishma..
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24 Jul 2012, 10:25
Had the same doubt about the "unique prime factors thing"; thanks for the clarification.
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28 Feb 2014, 06:43
I got the factorization in a much simpler way:

Multiples of 5 are extremely simple to factor; just multiply the number by 2 and divide by 10. In this case, I knew that 715 was a multiple of 5, so I knew 10*715 could be broken down into 10*(143*5). From there, I recognized 143 as a number that appears frequently on the gmat, and tested multiples of 11 to find 11 & 13. Then, the breakdown is simple: 2*5*5*11*13 = 4 distinct primes.

This took me 32 seconds to solve, so there are definitely simple methods to this type of problem.
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27 Mar 2014, 21:42
7150 is divisible by 11(7+5-1 = 11) & 25 (last two digits 50)

Remains 26 which is divisible by 13

7150 = 11 * 25 * 13 * 2

2, 5, 11, 13 are the prime factors

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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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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?

That's correct. In this question, they have specifically mentioned prime numbers (which in turn are unique)
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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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01 Apr 2017, 05:55
Factorize 7150

=2*5^2*11*13

Thus four prime factors.
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27 Jun 2018, 18:35
The tag is 600-700 level. Why is the question labeled "hard" in the Official Guide 2018 Book's Onine Question Bank?
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The tag is 600-700 level. Why is the question labeled "hard" in the Official Guide 2018 Book's Onine Question Bank?

The difficulty level of a question is calculated automatically based on the timer stats from the users which attempted the question. So our stats say that it's 600-700 level. OG says that it's hard.
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