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A website developer is designing a website for a clothing company. Clothing items will be arranged on a web page in a rectangular display showing 32 clothing items with the same number of items in each row. How many ways can the display be arranged? Please help

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Find every pair of positive integers with a product of 32.
1 x 32
2 x 16
4 x 8
8 x 4
16 x 2
32 x 1
There are 5 such pairs, meaning 5 ways of arranging this display.
Hope that helps.