Subject: General Aptitude · Chapter: Number System · Exam: · Marks: · Difficulty:
A number being successively divided by 3, 5 and 8 leaves remainders 1, 4 and 7 respectively. Find the respective remainders if the order of divisors be reversed.
Answer
Answer (as printed):
Explanation
3 x 5 y – 1 \ z = (8 × 1 + 7) = 15 ; y = (5 z + 4) = (5 × 15 + 4) = 79; 8 z – 4 x = (3y + 1) = (3 × 79 + 1) = 238. 1 – 7 Now, 8 238 5 29 – 6 3 5–4 1 – 2 \ Respective remainders are 6, 4, 2.
Explanation as extracted from the printed page; notation may be imperfect.