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A Trick that Might Factor In
The quantitative section of the GMAT has a known emphasis on factorization of numbers, asking a variety of questions about divisiblity, primes, least common multiple, etc. One fairly common question type asks "how many unique factors does (number) have?".
While there are certainly strategies to answer this question efficiently without any kind of shortcut trick, a pretty slick shortcut does exist: