Products are found by multiplying three different numbers from the set {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}. Among these products, how many pairs of relatively prime numbers are there?
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Because the problem asks for the product of three different numbers, that means that one number will have to be shared by both. Because we're looking for coprime numbers, the only common factor that they can have is 1. Note that 2 and 4 must be in the same product, because otherwise the two numbers will share a common factor of 2. We see that one of the numbers must be 1 × 2 × 4 , which means that the other must be 1 × 3 × 5 . We see that this is the only pair that satisfies the condition, therefore the answer is 1.