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Today, August 24

Question

‘a’ and ‘b’ are two natural numbers. Is ‘b’ a perfect square?
Statement 1: ‘b’ is divisible by (a + 1)2
Statement 2: $b < 100$

A

statement (1) alone is sufficient to answer the question

B

statement (2) alone is sufficient to answer the question

C

both the statements together are needed to answer the question

D

statement (1) alone or statement (2) alone is sufficient to answer the question

E

neither statement (1) nor statement (2) suffices to answer the question

Answer

neither statement (1) nor statement (2) suffices to answer the question

Explanation

Solution

The correct option is (E): neither statement (1) nor statement (2) suffices to answer the question