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Reply Tue 22 Jan, 2013 12:29 am
Hello everyone. MY first time here so I hope I am posting in the right forum. My son as a school math problem and is driving us crazy. Hope someone can help us explain it in an easy way. He has fewer than 1000 cars. With that he made 5 equal rows of cars and have one car left. He also made 4 equal rows of cars and also have one car left. He then made 9 equal rows and didnt have any cars left. He can have six possibilities. So how many cars does he have?

Thank you all , Marta
 
raprap
 
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Reply Tue 22 Jan, 2013 06:21 am
@Marta Pa,
Let K be the number of cars (K<1000)
and K is divisible by 9
lets look at numbers divisible by 9
0*9=0
1*9=9
2*9=18
3*9=27
4*9=36
5*9=45
6*9=54
7*9=63
8*9=72
9*9=81

From this list pick numbers that are divisible by 5 with remainders of 1
these are 36 (7R1) and 81(16R1)
of these two numbers 36 is evenly divisible by 4 (12R0)
but 81 has a remainder of 1 (81/4)=20R1

So the lowest possible number is 81

Now look for the rest

A number that is evenly divisible by 4, 5 & 9 is 180 (4*5*9=180)
So any number that is a additive multiple of 180to 81 has this same property.
(K=81+n*180 where n is an integer)

If the total number of cars is less thas 1000 then the maximim n is 5

and all solutions are

n=0, K=81
n=1 , K=261
n=2 , K=441
n=3 , K=621
n=4 , K=801
n=5 , K=981

Rap



Marta Pa
 
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Reply Tue 22 Jan, 2013 02:46 pm
@raprap,
rarap thank you SO MUCH!
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