Question

a group of boys bought 256 mangoes and distibuted them among themselves .if each boy got the number of mangoes equal to the number of boys in the group . find out the numbers of boys in the group.​

Answer 1

Answer:

here your answer

16 boys

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no. of boys= each boy got no. of

mangoes

x×x=256

x=16

Answer 2

Let the number of boys be 'a'

As each boy gets the no. of mangoes equal to the no. of boys,

Number of mangos = a x a = a^2

a x a = 256

Therefore a = square root of 256

256 = 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2

For square root we take pairs of nos. as one no.

= 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2

So, square root of 256 = 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 = 16

Therefore, a = 16

Total no. of boys = 16