Complete question :
A man has a garden measuring 40m by 24m. He wants to divide it equally into the minimum number of square plots. what is the length of each square plot?
Answer:
8 m
Explanation:
Given that :
Dimension of garden = 40m by 24m
Length of garden = 40m
Width of garden = 24m
To Obtain the length of each square plot if the garden is divided into minimum number of square plots ; we take the highest common factor of the dimension:
Length (40) = 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 20, 40
Width (24) = 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 24
The highest common factor here is 8 ;
Thus, the length of each square plot is 8m