Question

1 less than a century

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

so I am taking ‘a century’ to be 100 and a half a century would be 50.

1 less than 50 would be 49.

So, what number, multiplied by itself, gives a result of 49.

There are actually 2 numbers satisfying this condition. They are {-7, 7}.

Answer 2

Step-by-step explanation:

a century is a hundread

and one less than a century is

100- 1

which comes out to be 99