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GRE Prime Factorization and Divisibility Problems

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Manhattan Prep GRE Blog - GRE Prime Factors and Divisibility Problems by Cat Powell

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Here’s a hard problem that I used to teach in session 1 of our GRE course (my poor students! This was a rough intro to GRE math.)

Manhattan Prep GRE Blog - GRE Prime Factorization and Divisibility Problems by Cat Powell

If you’d like to, give yourself a minute or two to try this (but don’t bang your head against it for too long). If you’re thinking wow, I have no idea what’s going on here—well, it’s a good thing you’re reading this. And even if you do feel comfortable with this problem, it might be worth reading further to see how the techniques used to solve this are more broadly applicable in GRE Quant. Read more