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<cmath>= \frac{n(n+1)^2}{2} \log(2) + \frac{n(n+1)^2}{2} \log(5) </cmath> | <cmath>= \frac{n(n+1)^2}{2} \log(2) + \frac{n(n+1)^2}{2} \log(5) </cmath> | ||
<cmath> = \frac{n(n+1)^2}{2} </cmath> | <cmath> = \frac{n(n+1)^2}{2} </cmath> | ||
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Problem 23
The sum of the base- logarithms of the divisors of
is
. What is
?
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Solutions
Solution 1
Every factor of will be of the form
. Using the logarithmic property
, it suffices to count the total number of 2's and 5's running through all possible
. For every factor
, there will be another
, so it suffices to count the total number of 2's occurring in all factors (because of this symmetry, the number of 5's will be equal). And since
, the final sum will be the total number of 2's occurring in all factors of
.
There are choices for the exponent of 5 in each factor, and for each of those choices, there are
factors (each corresponding to a different exponent of 2), yielding
total 2's. The total number of 2's is therefore
. Plugging in our answer choices into this formula yields 11 (answer choice
) as the correct answer.
Solution 2
We are given The property
now gives
The product of the divisors is (from elementary number theory)
where
is the number of divisors. Note that
, so
. Substituting these values with
in our equation above, we get
, from whence we immediately obtain
as the correct answer.
Solution 3
For every divisor of
,
, we have
. There are
divisors of
that are
. After casework on the parity of
, we find that the answer is given by
.
Solution 4
The sum is
Trying for answer choices we get
See Also
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