An army contingent of 616 members is to march behind an army band of 32 members in a parade. The two groups are to march in the same number of columns. What is the maximum number of columns in which they can march?

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Show that any positive odd integer is of the form 6q + 1, or 6q + 3, or 6q + 5, where q is some integer.

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Find the LCM and HCF of 17, 23 and 29 by applying the prime factorization method.

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Use Euclid's division lemma to show that the square of any positive integer is either of form 3m or 3m + 1 for some integer m.
[Hint: Let x be any positive integer then it is of the form 3q, 3q + 1 or 3q + 2. Now square each of these and show that they can be rewritten in the form 3m or 3m + 1.]

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Find the LCM and HCF of 510 and 92and verify that LCM × HCF = product of the two numbers.

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Use Euclid's division lemma to show that the cube of any positive integer is of the form 9m, 9+ 1 or 9m + 8.

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Check whether 6n can end with the digit 0 for any natural number n.

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Explain why 7 × 11 × 13 + 13 and 7 × 6 × 5 × 4 × 3 × 2 × 1 + 5 are composite numbers.

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Given that HCF (306, 657) = 9, find LCM (306, 657).

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Without actually performing the long division, state whether  129/2× 5× 75  will have a terminating decimal expansion or a non-terminating repeating decimal

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