2022 AMC 12A Problems/Problem 23
Problem
Let and
be the unique relatively prime positive integers such that
Let
denote the least common multiple of the numbers
. For how many integers with
is
?
Solution
We are given that Since
we need
For all primes such that
let
be the largest power of
that is a factor of
It is clear that so we test whether
Note that
We construct the following table for
Note that:
- If the Sum column has only one term, then it is never congruent to
modulo
- If
and
are positive integers such that
then
is a multiple of
Therefore, for a specific case, if the sum is congruent to
modulo
for the smallest element in the interval of
then it is also congruent to
modulo
for all other elements in the interval of
Together, there are such integers
namely
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