Question

A general arranges his soldiers in rows and columns to form a perfect square. He find that in doing so,36 soldiers are left out. If the total number of soldiers be 8500 find the number of soldiers in each row.

Answer 1

Heya user
here is your answer !!

Let the number of rows be x .
Therefore , the number of columns will also be x .

So , ATQ ,
x^2 + 36 = 8500
=> x^2 = 8464
=> x = 92 .

There fore , number of soldiers in each row is 92 (Ans)

Hope it helps !!

Answer 2

ANSWER

we have to find the HCF of 616 and 32

HCF (616,32) is the maximum number of columns in which they can march.

Step 1: First find which integer is larger.

616>32

Step 2: Then apply the Euclid's division algorithm to 616 and 32 to obtain

616=32×19+8

Repeat the above step until you will get remainder as zero.

Step 3: Now consider the divisor 32 and the remainder 8, and apply the division lemma to get

32=8×4+0

Since the remainder is zero, we cannot proceed further.

Step 4: Hence the divisor at the last process is 8

So, the H.C.F. of 616 and 32 is 8.

Therefore, 8 is the maximum number of columns in which they can march.