UPSC Prelims 2025 · CSAT (Paper 2) · Q64

Basic Numeracy

Hard · Number properties: factors

Consider the following statements:

1. There exists a natural number which, when increased by 25%, can have its number of factors unchanged.

2. There exists a natural number which, when increased by 75%, can have its number of factors unchanged.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?