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Colored rods are used in the elementary-school classroom to teach many concepts. The rods vary in length from 1 cm to 10 cm. Various lengths have different colors; for example, the 5 rod is yellow. The rods and their colors are shown in Figure 9 (a). A row with all the same color rods is called a one-color train.
a. What rods can be used to form a one-color train for 18?
b. What one-color trains are possible for 24?
c. How many one-color trains of two or more rods are possible for each prime number?
d. In Figure 9 (b), a number represented by an all-red train, an all-green train, and an all-purple train is shown. How many factors does this number have? What are the factors?
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