2016 AMC 10A Problems/Problem 25
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Problem
How many ordered triples of positive integers satisfy
and
?
Solution 1
We prime factorize and
. The prime factorizations are
,
and
, respectively. Let
,
and
. We know that
and
since
isn't a multiple of 5. Since
we know that
. We also know that since
that
. So now some equations have become useless to us...let's take them out.
are the only two important ones left. We do casework on each now. If
then
or
. Similarly if
then
. Thus our answer is
.
Solution 2
It is well known that if the and
can be written as
, then the highest power of all prime numbers
must divide into either
and/or
. Or else a lower
is the
.
Start from :
so
or
or both. But
because $\text{lcm}(x,z}=600$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg) and
.
So
.
can be
in both cases of
but NOT
because $\lcm{y,z}=900$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg) and
.
So there are six sets of and we will list all possible values of
based on those.
because
must source all powers of
.
. $z\nin\{200,225\}$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg) because of
restrictions.
By different sourcing of powers of and
,
Counting the cases,
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