The product of all the positive divisors of a positive integer N is 6 × 1 6 × 3 6 × 9 6 . What is N ?
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Since only powers of two and three appear, N is 3-smooth (otherwise it's other prime factors would show up in the product). So N = 2 p 3 q . Then, the product of the prime factors of N is 2 a 3 b , where ( a , b ) is the sum of all ordered pairs ( x , y ) where ( 0 ≤ x ≤ p ) and ( 0 ≤ y ≤ q ) . This turns out to be: ( ( q + 1 ) Δ ( p ) , ( p + 1 ) Δ ( q ) ) , where Δ ( x ) is the sum of all positive integers not greater than x. Equating this to ( 1 2 , 4 ) and trying out the possible factorizations yields only ( a , b ) = ( 2 ( 1 + 2 + 3 ) , 4 ( 1 ) ) , so p = 3 and q = 1 . Then, N = 2 3 3 1 = 2 4 .
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The product of the positive divisors of positive integers N is given by N 2 d ( N ) = 6 × 1 6 × 3 6 × 9 6 N 2 d ( N ) = ( 3 × 2 ) . ( 2 4 ) . ( 3 2 × 2 2 ) . ( 2 5 × 3 ) N 2 d ( N ) = ( 2 3 × 3 ) 2 8 ⟹ N = 2 4 Where d ( N ) is the number of positive divisors of N and it's true that 2 4 has 8 positive divisors ie d ( 2 4 ) = 8 so the answer is 2 4 .