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A fruit vendor in Nagpur stacks 96 oranges and 156 apples. Each stack has only one kind of fruit, every stack has the same number, and stacks are as large as possible. How many stacks will there be?

Class 10Real NumbersNumber Systems
  • A12
  • B21
  • C42
  • D8

Step-by-Step Solution

Fruits per stack HCF(96, 156) . Stacks . (12 is the stack size; 6 per stack would give 42.)
Answer: B) 21

Key idea: When does a rational number terminate?

**Theorem**: A rational number (in lowest terms) has a terminating decimal expansion if and only if has the form **2ᵐ × 5ⁿ** (m, n ≥ 0).

**Examples**:
- → terminates → terminates → does NOT terminate… recurring.)
- → does NOT terminate (because of the 3).

**Why**: any decimal expansion is a fraction with denominator 10ⁿ = 2ⁿ × 5ⁿ. To convert to decimal form, you need to ONLY have 2s and 5s as primes — otherwise you can't multiply numerator/denominator into a power of 10.

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