Sum of factors of 27000

Calculate the sum of all
positive divisors of 27,000.

The easiest thing that
I can think of doing

is first take the prime
factorization of 27,000,

and then that will help us
kind of structure our thought

of what all of the
different divisors of 27,000

would have to look like.

So 27,000 is the same thing
as 27 times 1,000, which

is the same thing as 3 to the
third times 10 to the third,

and 10 is, of course, the
same thing as 2 times 5.

So this is the same thing
as 2 times 5 to the third,

or it's the same thing as 2 to
the third times 5 to the third.

So 27,000 is equal to
2 to the third times 3

to the third times
5 to the third.

So any divisor of 27,000 is
going to have to be made up

of the product of up to three
2's, up to three 3's, and up

to three 5's.

So let's try to look
at all the combinations

and think of a fast
way of summing them.

So let's just say it
has no fives in it.

It has no fives in a divisor.

So if it has no fives, then
it could have up to three

2's, so let's say
it has zero 2's.

So I'm just going to
take the powers of 2,

so if it has zero 2's,
then we'll put a 1

here, if it has two 2's, it
has to be divisible by 4.

If it has three 2's, it's
going to be divisible by 8.

When I say three 2's, I
mean 2 times 2 times 2.

Now, let's do it with the 3's.

If you have, oh wait,
I forgot a power.

If you have zero 2's, that means
it's just divisible by 1 from

looking at the 2's.

If you have one 2, it's
divisible by just 2.

If you have two 2's,
you're divisible by 4.

And if you have
three 2's, and when

I mean that I'm saying
2 times 2 times 2,

that means you're
divisible by 8.

Let's do the same thing with 3.

From the point of view of the 3,
if you have no 3's, that means

at least you're divisible by 1.

If you have one 3, that
means you're divisible by 3.

Two 3's, or 3 times 3 means
you're divisible by 9.

If you have three 3's, it
means you're divisible by 27.

So let's look at all of
the possible combinations.

And for this grid that I'm
going to generate right here,

we assume that you're
not divisible by 5,

or you're only divisible
by 5 to the zero power.

So what are all the
possible numbers here?

Well, you have 1 times 1 is 1.

That's divisible by 1 and 1.

You have 1 times 3, which
is 3, 1 times 9 which is 9,

1 times 27 which is 27.

So these are all
the numbers that

are divisible by that have up
to three 3's in them, from zero

to three 3's in them, and
they have no twos in them.

If you throw
another two in here,

you're essentially going to
multiply all of these numbers

by two.

If you throw
another two in here,

you're going to multiply
all of these numbers by 2.

Now, before I do
this, because I want

to do this as fast as possible.

I could figure out
what these numbers are,

I could multiply them.

But instead, let's
just take the sum.

Let's just take the
sum here of this row,

of this first row
that we just did.

We have 1 plus 3 plus 9
plus 27, 3 plus 27 is 30,

1 plus 9 is 10.

So this is going to be 40.

Now, whatever these numbers are,
they're all going to be 2 times

these numbers.

So the sum is going to be
80, and the sum over here

is going to be 2 times
the previous row.

Because here we multiplied by
2, here we're multiplying by 4,

so it's going to be 160.

And over here, we just
multiplied by 2 again,

it's going to be 320.

Or another way of thinking about
it, whatever the sum is here,

it's going to be eight times
the sum of the first row.

And I could, just so
you know what I'm doing,

I could actually
put numbers here.

This number would be 8, 24,
72, and whatever 8 times 27,

I was at 160, 160
plus 56, so it's 216.

But we don't want to do that.

We just have to
think about the sums.

So if you think about all of the
dividers of 27,000 that are not

divisible by 5-- so
they're only divisible by 5

to the zero power, I
guess you could say it.

We've now figured
out their sum, it's

going to be the sum
of all of these rows.

So if you take 40
plus 80, you have

120 plus 160 is 280
plus 320 is 600.

So this is the situation.

This is the sum of all of
the combinations of the 2's

and the 3's that don't
have any 5's in them.

Now, if you took
the same combination

of 2's and 3's, so
these added up to 600,

let me write it over here.

So no fives Now, if you
did the same exact thing

that we just did
here, but we just

multiplied everything by 5.

So we'd then be looking
at all the combinations

that have this many twos and
this many threes, and one five,

what would happen to this sum?

Well, we would just
multiply it by 5.

So let's multiply that by 5.

So you multiply 600 by 5,
you get 30 with two zeroes,

and so this is one 5 in
the prime factorization

of the divisors.

Now, if I wanted two 5's, I
could just multiply by 5 again.

So if I multiply by 5
again, I get 15,000.

This is two 5's.

Another way of
thinking about this,

if I just multiply
every term here

by 25, which is essentially
multiplying by 5 times 5,

this sum is going to be 600
times 25, which is 15,000.

Now, if I have three
5's than I could just

multiply this by five again.

5 times 15 is 50 plus 25 is 75.

So its 75,000.

So now I know all the sums.

If I have no 5's, the
sum of all the divisors

is 600, if I have one 5,
3,000, so on and so forth.

If I want the sum of
everything, I just

take the sum of these numbers.

Let me scroll down a little bit.

So I get, well, I
have zero, zero,

than in the hundreds
place, I only have a six,

and then 3 plus 5 plus 5 is 13.

Is that right?

Yeah, that's 13.

And then carry the one,
and then I have a 9.

So 93,600.

So the sum of all positive
divisors of 27,000, 93,600.

Hope you found
that entertaining.