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Problem 220

AMC 10/12, early questions
Number theory Difficulty 3.9 Find the answer HMMT November 2013 · United States · 2013

Problem:

Find the number of positive integer divisors of 12!12! that leave a remainder of 11 when divided by 33.

Official solution

Solution:

First we factor 12!=21035527111112! = 2^{10} 3^{5} 5^{2} 7^{1} 11^{1}, and note that 2,5,111(mod3)2, 5, 11 \equiv -1 \pmod{3} while 71(mod3)7 \equiv 1 \pmod{3}. The desired divisors are precisely 2a5b7c11d2^{a} 5^{b} 7^{c} 11^{d} with 0a100 \leq a \leq 10, 0b20 \leq b \leq 2, 0c10 \leq c \leq 1, 0d10 \leq d \leq 1, and a+b+da + b + d even. But then for any choice of a,ba, b, exactly one d{0,1}d \in \{0, 1\} makes a+b+da + b + d even, so we have exactly one 1(mod3)1 \pmod{3}-divisor for every triple (a,b,c)(a, b, c) satisfying the inequality constraints. This gives a total of (10+1)(2+1)(1+1)=66(10+1)(2+1)(1+1) = 66.

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