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The question is essentially asking us to find the odd factors of 10!
On prime factorising, you get the values as 2^8 * 3^4 * 5^2 * 7^1 and since we are calculating only the odd factors, we can drop 2^8 and just calculate (4 + 1)(2 + 1)(1 + 1) which gives you 30 (option A, as what is circled in the screenshot).

However, the question does not mention anything about the factors being only positive. Hence, shouldn’t we multiply it by 2, to account even for the negative factors resulting in the answer being 60(option B)?


You are correct. The question should have mentioned positive integers. However, the GRE will seldom take advantage of this convention. If so, it should concretely mention positive-only or else we should apply the convention used in the attached image. This is from GRE math conventions: https://www.ets.org/pdfs/gre/gre-math-conventions.pdf

Actually: this is GMAT. GMAT does not care about negative factors at all.

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