There were 63 equal piles of plantain fruit put together and 7 single fruits. They were divided evenly among 23 travelers. What is the number in each pile. Consider the Diophantine equation 63x+7=23y
So I found one solution: -7= 6(-28)+23(7)
so then I plugged it into the formula to find all solutions and got
x=-28-23t and y=-28-6t
so then I got t<-1.2 and t<-4.7 but this range is huge.. where did I go wrong?
No comments:
Post a Comment