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Problem
The sum of the base- logarithms of the divisors of is . What is ?
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Solution
Every factor of will be of the form . Not all of these base ten logarithms will be rational, but we can add them together in a certain way to make it rational. Recall the logarithmic property . For any factor , there will be another factor . Note this is not true if is a perfect square. When these are multiplied, they equal . so the number of factors divided by 2 times n equals the sum of all the factors, 792. There are choices for the exponent of 5 in each factor, and for each of those choices, there are factors (each corresponding to a different exponent of 2), yielding total factors. . We then plug in answer choices and arrive at the answer
Final answer
A