A farmer on counting his harvest for the season found that his trees had yielded 896,809 apples. He asked his labourers to pack the apples into as few boxes as possible, each having the same number of apples.
How many boxes were used?
2007-01-22 16:17:29 · 13 answers · asked by Rajeev N 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
947 boxes with 947 apples in each.
2007-01-22 16:22:15 · answer #1 · answered by Richard B 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Fewest would be 1, holding all 896,809 apples. There are only two other options:
947 boxes holding 947 apples each
896,809 boxes each holding 1 apple.
2007-01-23 00:27:05 · answer #2 · answered by Tim P. 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
17
2007-01-23 00:20:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
947 boxes each holding 947 apples.
2007-01-23 08:11:08 · answer #4 · answered by DavidNH 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 box. This would use the least number of boxes but be very impractical. The box would hold 896,809 apples.
2007-01-23 00:21:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
947 boxes
2007-01-23 00:21:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
don't you have to tell us how big the boxes were? It could be 1,2,4,5,8,10,12, 20, or 40 apples per box. It depends
2007-01-23 00:21:06 · answer #7 · answered by THERikmeister 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
One
2007-01-23 00:21:05 · answer #8 · answered by warmspirited 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
947 boxes.
2007-01-23 00:36:27 · answer #9 · answered by Dreamer 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
2 + 2 +2 + 909,698
2007-01-23 00:21:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋