Question

a is the highest common factor of 96 + b and 187 + b. a greater than 1 and is coprime with 504 find the smallest natural number value b can take?

Answer 1

Answer:

In number theory, Co-prime numbers are those numbers if the only positive factor that divides them is 1.

Here,

Option A: (17,15) Factor that divides both of them is 1.

Option B: (10,16) Factors that divides both oh them are 1,2.

Option C: (20,24) Factors that divide both of them are 1,2,4.

Option C: (31,62) Factors that divide both oh them are 1,31.

In reference to above definition (17,15) are co-prime numbers.