At maths club on Wednesday Mrs Comer set us all a challenge, it was: what number has exactly 36 factors? The prize was five house points!! We could use a calculator, but we couldn't look on the internet. We all tried to find the number but we couldn't yesterday. I found out that 3330 had 24 factors so I doubled it which gave me 6660 so I worked on it and then it gave me 36 factors.
Willow O'Neill
Willow, I'm impressed that you have persevered with this challenge! Before I can allocate the 5 house-points:
ReplyDeletei) Why were you trying 3330? Then, why did you double it to get 36 factors? Explain your reasoning.
ii) List each of the factors of 6660.
You're nearly there ...!
I picked 3330 because it seemed like a good number to work on so when found all the factors I doubled it to find 6660 so I worked on it and found 36 factors they are
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