SOLUTION: Find the largest three digit number which has exactly ten factors, including 1 and itself.

Question 42054: Find the largest three digit number which has exactly ten factors, including 1 and itself.
Answer by psbhowmick(878) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If any number has 'N' has 'r' prime number factors and can be expressed as

where , , , ... are the prime factors and , , , .... are their respective indices.

For such a number N, the total number of factors (including 1 and itself) is given by .

Here total no. of factors = 10.
Hence,

As 10 itself has prime factors 2 and 5.
So the reqd. number must have only two prime factors such that the index of one of them is (2-1=) 1 and that of the other is (5-1=) 4.

So,

As N has to be largest of all 3-digited number possible.

First, let us try with
Let, = 7. Then > 1000.
Let, = 5. Then < 1000 but has to be atleast 2. So then N > 1000.
Let, = 3. Then . Under this condition (max) = 11 so N(max) = 891 < 1000. OK
Let, = 2. Then . Under this condition (max) = 61 so N(max) = 976 < 1000. OK

Hence 976 is the largest 3-digit number with exactly 10 factors including (1 and itself).
These factors are: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 61, 122, 244, 488, 976.
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