Amaya Holliday

1/19/16
POW #6

1.) We are exploring divisors. Also, we are trying to find patterns or generalizations about the divisors.
2.)
A.) I got started by making a list of 1 to 40. I then found all the divisor for those numbers. After that I put a red
dot by every number with three divisors and a purple dot by all numbers with four divisors.
B.) The approach I tried was to right all number from 1 to 40 out. I thought that this will give me enough data to
be able to form conclusions. Then, I realized I wanted to use more number so I googled 1 to 100 with divisors.
This came in very handy.
C.) The information I gathered includes that all prime numbers have two divisors one and itself. The larger the
number it will most likely have more divisors because it has more numbers that can be multiplied into it. All
even numbers have at least three divisors with the exception of two. I gathered that the smallest number with
10 divisors is 48. The only number with 5 divisors between 1 and 100 is 16 and 81. Furthermore, the smallest
number with 12 divisors is 60.
D.) I decided to stop when I analyzed all divisors from 1 to 100 and answer all the questions on the POW. I
thought after completing those tasks it would give me an accurate representation of divisors.
3.)
A.) I found out that numbers with exactly three divisors all odd squared numbers with the exceptions of 4. An
example, includes 25 only 1, 5, 25 are divisors and 5*5 equals 25 making it a squared number.
Results
4
9
25
49
B.) I found that in most numbers with four divisors the second divisor is usually 2 or 3. This makes sense
because two and three are very common divisors.
Results
6
8
10
14
21
22
26
27
33
34
35

38
39

C.) Most larger numbers have more divisors because more numbers can multiply into them. If you look at my
list of numbers you can see that there is slow incline of divisors. (I drew a line to prove this) There is always the
exception of prime numbers who only have two divisors.
D.) I could not find a specific way to figure out how many divisors are in these very large numbers. I simply
googled it. I saw no connection between these numbers and their divisors.
Results
1,000,000,000 = 98 divisors
1,000,000 = 47 divisors
100,000 = 34 divisors
10,000 = 25 divisors
1,000 = 15 divisors
100 = 9 divisors
10 = 4 divisors
E.) The smallest number with 20 divisors is 240.
Results
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 16, 20, 240, 30, 40, 48, 60, 80. 120, 240
4.) The three questions I chose to investigate were what is the smallest number with a divisor of ten, how
many number with 5 divisors are there between 1 and 100, and what is the smallest number with 12 divisors.
Results
The smallest number number with ten divisors is 48. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 16, 24, 48 are the divisors.
16 and 81 are the only numbers with 5 divisors between 1 and 100. When I was looking for numbers
with 5 divisors I noticed a lot of numbers had 2, 4, and 6 divisors.
The smallest number with 12 divisors is 60. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, 60 are the divisors.
5.) This POW was very hard for me because it was very time consuming in my case. I was also, a little
confused on what it was asking. I should have advocated to Lauren about my questions before leaving on
the three day weekend. Next time if I have questions I will advocate sooner so I wont be as confused and
stressed.