Consider a standard pitch scale of 220 hertz. If a musical performer identifies a 5 range of scale as ideal for both audience engagement and the instruments involved, how many total hertz does the range encompass?

16

Step-by-step explanation:

We must find integers x, y with the most amount of prime divisors, not necessarily distinct, such that x + 3y < 1,000.

Obviously, this is achieved when the divisor is the least prime 2. So, we must find integers n, m such that

since , then n must be 9. For n=9 we find the greatest integer m such that  

and we find m=7

 and   ,  are the numbers we are looking for and the sum of their length is 9+7 = 16.

So, 16 is the maximum possible sum of the length of x and the length of y.