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Three sets of English, Mathematics and Science books containing 336, 240 and 96 books respectively have to be stacked in such a way that all the books are stored subject wise and the height of each stack is the same. How many stacks will be there? |
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Answer» Total number of English books = 336 Total number of mathematics books = 240 Total number of science books = 96 ∴ Number of books stored in each stack = HCF (336, 240, 96) Prime factorization: 336 = 24 × 3 × 7 240 = 24 × 3 × 5 96 = 25 × 3 ∴ HCF = Product of the smallest power of each common prime factor involved in the numbers = 24 × 3 = 48 Hence, we made stacks of 48 books each. ∴ Number of stacks = \(\frac{336}{48}\) + \(\frac{240}{48}\) + \(\frac{96}{48}\) = (7+5+2) = 14 |
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