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How to tackle a question like this in actual GMAT test? I started on the right track but got stuck because i didn't know the square of 64. I went ahead anyway and calculated the square and ended up with 4097 whose factors i needed to find to arrive at the solution, but at this point of time it was already way past the 3 minutes. I would have surely guessed and jumped to the next question in actual GMAT condition.
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you could further factorize \((2^{12})+1= [(2^4)^3]+1^3\) by using formula \(a^3 + b^3=(a+b) (a^2 +b^2-ab)\)
In this way you neither have to calculate 64^2 nor have to factorize 4097.( both are time consuming)

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How to tackle a question like this in actual GMAT test? I started on the right track but got stuck because i didn't know the square of 64. I went ahead anyway and calculated the square and ended up with 4097 whose factors i needed to find to arrive at the solution, but at this point of time it was already way past the 3 minutes. I would have surely guessed and jumped to the next question in actual GMAT condition.
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How to tackle a question like this in actual GMAT test? I started on the right track but got stuck because i didn't know the square of 64. I went ahead anyway and calculated the square and ended up with 4097 whose factors i needed to find to arrive at the solution, but at this point of time it was already way past the 3 minutes. I would have surely guessed and jumped to the next question in actual GMAT condition.


Hi,

Neither do you require to know the factors of 4097 nor hidden formulas or a^3+b^3 etc.
You will never see such a question in GMAT.
Yes you should know how to tackle 2-digit positive factors from all factors.
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