Today’s Puzzle:

This puzzle isn’t so easy to solve. For example, the common factor of clues 48 and 24 might be 4, 6, 8, or 12. Which one should you use? Logic will help answer that question. Give this puzzle a try?

Factors of 1644:

1644 has 12 factors and is divisible by 12.

• 1644 is a composite number.
• Prime factorization: 1644 = 2 × 2 × 3 × 137, which can be written 1644 = 2² × 3 × 137.
• 1644 has at least one exponent greater than 1 in its prime factorization so √1644 can be simplified. Taking the factor pair from the factor pair table below with the largest square number factor, we get √1644 = (√4)(√411) = 2√411.
• The exponents in the prime factorization are 2, 1, and 1. Adding one to each exponent and multiplying we get (2 + 1)(1 + 1)(1 + 1) = 3 × 2 × 2 = 12. Therefore 1644 has exactly 12 factors.
• The factors of 1644 are outlined with their factor pair partners in the graphic below.

More about the Number 1644:

1644 is the hypotenuse of a Pythagorean triple:
1056-1260-1644 which is 12 times (88-105-137).