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Two tankers contain 486 litres and 684 litres of petrol respectively. Find the maximum capacity
of a container that can measure the petrol of either tanker in exact number of times? THOTS)​

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Real Numbers

Euclid's Division Lemma

Two tankers contain 850 lit...

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Two tankers contain 850 litres and 680 litres of petrol respectively. Find the maximum capacity of a container which can measure the petrol of either tanker in exact number of times.

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Clearly, the maximum capacity of the container is the HCF of 850 and 680 in litres. So, Let us find the HCF of 580 and

680 by Euclids algorithm.

Clearly, HCF of 850 and 680 is 170.

Hence, capacity of the container must be 170 litres.

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