The number of divisors of $2^2.3^3.5^3.7^5$ of the form (4n+1).
Since $4n +1$ is odd the divisors must be of the form $3^a.5^b.7^c$
Since $a,b,c$ can have $4,4,6$ values respectively, answer should be $4.4.6$
This answer says that answer is 48 but this question came in my test in which the correct answer was 47.
Please explain without the use of modular arithmetic.
Your exponent $b$ can be any of $4$ options, but that's not entirely true for $a$ and $c$. In fact, if $a+c$ is odd, we have a problem. (Note, for example, that $3^17^0=3$ fails to be of the proper form.) Thus, for each choice of $a$, there are only $3$ viable choices for $c$, namely, those with the same parity as $a$.
I don't see any reason why the answer should be $47$ instead of $48$, though, unless we're excluding the number $1$ as a divisor? That would seem strange.
Edit
As noted below in a comment: If we exclude $0$ as a natural number, as some authors do, then the number $1$ is not of the correct form, so we would exclude the case $a=b=c=0$.