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Today’s Puzzle:
We often think of rainbows around Saint Patrick’s Day. Here is a rainbow puzzle for you to solve. It won’t be all that easy even if I tell you that
13 × 14 = 182,
12 × 13 = 156, and
8 × 14 = 112.
Good luck!
If you’d like to print the puzzle but not use so much ink, here’s a puzzle with all the same clues:
Print the puzzles or type the solution in this excel file: 14 Factors 1604-1612.
Factor Rainbow for 1608:
The number 1608 has enough factors to make an impressive factor rainbow:
Factors of 1608:
- 1608 is a composite number.
- Prime factorization: 1608 = 2 × 2 × 2 × 3 × 67, which can be written 1608 = 2³ × 3 × 67.
- 1608 has at least one exponent greater than 1 in its prime factorization so √1608 can be simplified. Taking the factor pair from the factor pair table below with the largest square number factor, we get √1608 = (√4)(√402) = 2√402.
- The exponents in the prime factorization are 3,1 and 1. Adding one to each exponent and multiplying we get (3 + 1)(1 + 1) (1 + 1) = 4 × 2 × 2 = 16. Therefore 1608 has exactly 16 factors.
- The factors of 1608 are outlined with their factor pair partners in the graphic below.
More about the Number 1608:
1608 is the difference of two squares in four different ways:
403² – 401² = 1608,
203² – 199² = 1608,
137² – 131² = 1608, and
73² – 61² = 1608.