Suppose we divided N into 200 and got quotient Q and remainder 5, like this: Q N)200 N·Q 5 Then to check that division by multiplying, we'd have 200 = N·Q + 5 or 195 = N·Q So we just write down all the possibilities for N and Q, which amounts to writing down all the ways to write 195 as a product of two positive integers: 195 = N·Q ------------- 195 = 1·195 195 = 3·65 195 = 5·39 195 = 13·15 195 = 15·13 195 = 39·5 195 = 65·3 195 = 195·1 And of course. each of those 8 cases of N gives remainder 5 when we divide 200 by N: 195 65 39 15 1)200 3)200 5)200 13)200 195 195 195 195 5 5 5 5 13 5 3 1 15)200 39)200 65)200 195)200 195 195 195 195 5 5 5 5 Answer: 8 Edwin