Question

A gardener has 1000 plants. He wants to plant these in suh a manner that the number of rows and the number of columns remains the same. Find the minimum number of plants  he needs more for tbis.

Answer 1

to have same no of plants required to fill the row and column so the no of plants must be a square no .
so 1000 is not a perfect square as per question adding plant is required so the nearest perfect square no is 1024 which is a square of 32 
so he will need 1024- 1000= 24 more plants 
so that the column and row has same no of plants that is 32.