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Question from Peter, a student:

How many positive integer factors of 2^2*3^2*5 are multiples of 12?

Hi Peter,

12 can be written as 22 × 3, the multiples of 12 will be 22 × 3 times all the combinations of the remaining factors.

Janice

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