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Sunday, March 4, 2018

2018/008) Five distinct 2 digit numbers are in GP. Find them

As we have 2^4=16 and 10 * 16 > 99 hence the common ratio < 2

So let the common ration be \frac{b}{a} where a and b are co-primes

So the numbers are a^4, a^3b,a^2b^2,a^3b,a^4 and we should have

a^4 >=10=>a>= 2 and b^4 < 100=> b <=3 ands hence a=2,b=3 and the numbers are16,24,36,54,81

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