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Shouldn’t this question say “distinct prime factors”? If you just say prime factors I don’t understand why 1) is insufficient.

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Shouldn’t this question say “distinct prime factors”? If you just say prime factors I don’t understand why 1) is insufficient.

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This is the main trick.
when a question mention the prime factors, it must be talking about the distinct primes.
actually, the word "distinct" is redundant.

Think about it,
what is the distinct prime factors of 64? 2 .. correct.
what is the prime factors of 64? there is still no answer other than 2 (the others factors are not primes)

Back to statement 1:
12 & 6 has the same prime factors (which are 2 &3).
if p = 12 & q = 6, then p/q is integer
if p = 6 & q = 12, then p/q is not integer ---> so insufficient.
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Thank you, that is helpful. This may be a linguistic tic on the GMAT that I need to remember. I had always learned that if the factorization is 2^3 3 the the factors are 2, 2, 2, and 3 and the distinct factors are 2 and 3. Slight difference in how things are expressed from what I’m used to.

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