965 Run, Turkey, Run!

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

I didn’t mean to make any Thanksgiving puzzles but after I created the puzzles this week, I could see some Thanksgiving-related pictures in the designs I had already made. This one is my favorite.

Run, Turkey, Run! For millions of turkeys today, it’s already too late.

Print the puzzles or type the solution in this excel file: 12 factors 959-967

Here is a little about the number 965:

965 is the sum of two squares two different ways:
26² + 17² = 965
31² + 2² = 965

So it is also the hypotenuse of FOUR Pythagorean triples, two of them primitives:
124-957-965, calculated from 2(31)(2), 31² – 2², 31² + 2²
387-884-965, calculated from 26² – 17², 2(26)(17), 26² + 17²
475-840-965 which is 5 times (95-168-193)
579-772-965 which is (3-4-5) times 193

  • 965 is a composite number.
  • Prime factorization: 965 = 5 × 193
  • The exponents in the prime factorization are 1 and 1. Adding one to each and multiplying we get (1 + 1)(1 + 1) = 2 × 2 = 4. Therefore 965 has exactly 4 factors.
  • Factors of 965: 1, 5, 193, 965
  • Factor pairs: 965 = 1 × 965 or 5 × 193
  • 965 has no square factors that allow its square root to be simplified. √965 ≈ 31.064449

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