Exercise 2.1
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Find all positive integers, when divided by 3 leaves remainder 2.
2. A man has 532 flower pots. He wants to arrange them in rows such
contains 21 flower pots. Find the number of completed rows and he
pots are left over.
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The positive integers which when divided by 3 leaves a remainder 2 are the ones added to the multiples of 3 , they are as follows
5,8,11,14
In general it is of the form 3n+2, where n runs from 1 to infinity
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In such questions we need to divide the number of flower pots by the flower pots per row, the quotient provides the number of rows needed, while the remainder gives the number of flower pots left
532÷21
quotient=25
remainder=7
Number of completed rows=25
Number of pots left over=7.
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The number of completed rows = 25
The the number of flower pots leftover = 7
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