SOLUTION: A person on attempting to arrange the chairs for a function in the form of a square found that 4 chairs were left over. When he increased the size of the square by one chair. He f

Question 273176: A person on attempting to arrange the chairs for a function in the form of a square found that
4 chairs were left over. When he increased the size of the square by one chair. He found
that he was short of 25 chairs. Find the number of chairs.
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A person on attempting to arrange the chairs for a function in the form of a square found that 4 chairs were left over.
When he increased the size of the square by one chair. He found that he was short of 25 chairs.
Find the number of chairs.
:
Let (x^2 + 4) = no. of chairs
:
"When he increased the size of the square by one chair. He found that he was short of 25 chairs."
x^2 + 4 = (x+1)^2 - 25
:
x^2 + 4 = x^2 + 2x + 1 - 25
:
0 = x^2 - x^2 + 2x - 24 - 4
:
0 = 2x - 28
:
2x = 28
x = 14
:
14^2 + 4 = 200 chairs
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