If you're dealing with divisibility in number theory, I think the question may be asking if there is an integer which divides 7 giving the quotient 3. This would mean that 7 would have 3 as a factor. 7, being prime, has no factors.
However the root of 7/3 does does yield a quotient of 3. The number does exist (root of 7/3), but it is not an integer.
Last edited by jmedsy; November 2nd, 2009 at 09:25 PM.
Reason: further explain
The solution set is . . Thus xyz is a multiple of 60.
so what about the set (5,12,13)?
You've got to try the following:
Prove that one of the numbers are divisble by 5,
prove that one of them is divisible by 3
and prove that one of them i divisible by 4.
These statements are true and should not be to hard to prove.
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