Mark divided a basket of apples evenly into small bags. The number of bags was equal to the number of apples in each bag. Which could be the total number of apples?

A. 25 B. 27 C. 20 D. 18

Respuesta :

There are 5 bags and each bag has 5 apples and total there are 25 apples , Option A is the correct answer.

What is a Perfect Square ?

A perfect square is a number which can be written as the product of an integer with itself.

It is given that Mark divided a basket of apples evenly into small bags.

Let there be n no. of bags and therefore n number of apples in each bag

Then the total number of apples will be

n * n

The value of total number of apples should be a perfect square,

In the option given only 25 is the perfect square

Therefore the equation can be made as

n² = 25

n = 5

There are 5 bags and each bag has 5 apples and total there are 25 apples.

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