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Example Question #41 : Understanding The Properties Of Integers
A group of people can be divided into samples of an equal number of people or samples of an equal number of people. What can be the lowest number of people in the group?
The lowest number of people in the group is the least common multiple of 10 and 16.
The least common multiple is:
The lowest possible number of people in the group is 80.
Example Question #42 : Understanding The Properties Of Integers
If is an integer, which of the following is guaranteed to be false?
is a negative number.
can be written as a ratio of two other integers
Integers are the counting numbers, their negatives, and zero.
and
is false, because there is no counting number between and .
It is possible (although not always) for to be written as a ratio of two other integers. For example, , an integer, can be written as ; a ratio of two other integers (though in our minds, we would quickly simplify this fraction to )
Example Question #1761 : Problem Solving Questions
Which of the following cannot be expressed as the product of two distinct prime numbers?
None of the other responses gives a correct answer.
Three of the choices can be written as the product of two distinct primes:
However, 37, being a prime, has only one factorization - , and 1 is not a prime. 37 is the correct choice.
Example Question #1762 : Problem Solving Questions
If is an integer, which of the following is not necessarily true?
for all real numbers
is false.
All the other answers are true.
There exists some integer such that
There exists some integer such that
For example, If , the only way to multiply this to another number and get is if , but is not an integer, so this is impossible. (integers are the counting numbers , their negatives, and )
Example Question #43 : Understanding The Properties Of Integers
Which of the following is true if the quotient of by is a negative number?
The quotient is negative if x and y have opposite signs; that is if x is positive, y will be negative or if x is negative y will be positive.
In which case, the product of x and y must be negative, that is xy<0.
So the product of x and y cannot be positive in this case.
The other inequalities do not have to be true for the quotient of x and y to be negative.
Example Question #44 : Understanding The Properties Of Integers
Below is a six-digit number. Three digits have been left out.
.
How many ways can the three circles be filled with the same digit to yield an integer divisible by 6?
Four
One
Five
Two
Three
Five
An integer is divisible by 6 if and only if it is divisible by 2 and 3.
It is divisible by 3 if and only if the sum of its digits is divisible by 3. If we let be the missing common digit, then the digit sum is
divided by 3 is , an integer, so the digit sum - and the number itself - will be divisible by 3 regardless of the digit that is entered in all three circles.
The number will be divisible by 2 if and only if the final digit - thiat is, the digit entered in all three circles - is 0, 2, 4, 6, or 8.
Therefore, there are five possible digits that can be entered into all three circles to yield a multiple of 6.
Example Question #45 : Understanding The Properties Of Integers
Below is a six-digit number. Three digits have been left out.
.
How many ways can the three circles be filled with the same digit to yield an integer divisible by 8?
One
Two
None
Five
Three
One
For an integer to be divisible by 8, it must also be divisible by 2 and by 4.
The number is a multple of 2, so the last digit - and the common digit - can be narrowed down to 0, 2, 4, 6, and 8.
The number is a multple of 4, so the last two digits must form a multiple of 4; since 60, 64, and 68 are divisible by 4, and 62 and 66 are not, this narrows the choice to 0, 4, and 8.
We can now just try all three cases with straightforward division:
Only 4 works, so the correct choice is one.
Example Question #42 : Understanding The Properties Of Integers
Which of the following must be an even number if is an integer?
An even number can be written as where is an integer. The expression is even since it is the sum of two even numbers ( and ) and also can be written as .
must be even if is an integer.
Let's look at the other answers:
is odd whether is odd or even. Therefore, it is not true that must be even.
is even only if is even and odd if is odd. Therefore, it is not true that must be even.
is even if is odd and odd if is even. Therefore, it is not true that must be even.
is even if is even and odd is is odd. Therefore, it is not true that must be even.
Example Question #1767 : Problem Solving Questions
The remainder of divided by is 7. and are both positive numbers and is at least twice the value of but less than three times the value of . What is the value of if the difference between and is 16?
We know that the remainder of divided by is 7.
So we can write , where is the quotient of divided by .
The next piece of information tells us that is at least twice the value of but less than three times the value of . We can then write the following expression:
This expression reveals that the quotient of divided by is 2 since is greater than but less than .
Therefore:
The last piece of information is that , So, .
Replacing in the previous equation gives:
Example Question #1768 : Problem Solving Questions
The number of students in a class is more than 15 but less than 50. The students can be divided into 6 groups with the same odd number of members. If each group has more than 6 members, what is the number of students in the class?
Let be the number of students in the class. The students can be divided into 6 groups of members, with being an odd integer greater than 6.
and
First, find an odd integer such that and .
(1) Try
If is 7, then is 42 and .
If each group has 7 members, there are 42 students in the class.
(2) Try
If is 9, then and does not satisfy the condition of being between 15 and 50.
Therefore, the students can be divided in 6 groups of 7 members. There are 42 students in the class.