2020 AMC 10A Problems/Problem 15
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Problem
A positive integer divisor of is chosen at random. The probability that the divisor chosen is a perfect square can be expressed as , where and are relatively prime positive integers. What is ?
Solution
The prime factorization of is . This yields a total of divisors of In order to produce a perfect square divisor, there must be an even exponent for each number in the prime factorization. Note that and can not be in the prime factorization of a perfect square because there is only one of each in Thus, there are perfect squares. (For , you can have , , , , , or s, etc.) The probability that the divisor chosen is a perfect square is
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