Tuesday 5 February, 2008

Divisors & Remainders

Two numbers, when divided by a divisor give 4375 and 2989 as the remainder. Their sum, when divided by the same divisor gives 2361 as the remainder. What is the divisor?

If q1, q2 and q3 be the three quotients in the respective divisions, the value of (q1 + q2) - q3 may be:

(a) -2
(b) -1
(c) -0
(d) +0
(e) +1
(f) +2

The question may have more than one possible answer.

2 comments:

"Sajal" said...
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"Sajal" said...

Divisor comes out to be 5003

(q1+q2)-q3 should be equal to -1 ,ie, (b)

I hope my answer is correct