Exercise 1B

Three sets of English, Mathematics and Science books containing 336, 240 and 96 books respectively have to be stacked in such a way that all the books are stored subject wise and the height of each stack is the same. How many stacks will be there?

Answer: Total number of English books = 336 Total number of mathematics books = 240 Total number of science books = 96 ∴ Number of books stored in each stack = HCF (336, 240, 96) Using prime...

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In a seminar, the number of participants in Hindi, English and mathematics are 60, 84 and 108 respectively. Find the minimum number of rooms required, if in each room, the same number of participants are to be seated and all of them being in the same subject.

Answer: Minimum number of rooms required = ???????????????????? ???????????????????????? ???????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????? / ???????????? (60,84,108) Prime factorization of...

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