Question

A gardener has 1000 plants. He wants to plant these in such a way that the number of rows and the number of columns remain same. Find how many more plants he need for this.

Answer 1

The next perfect square number closest but greater than $1000$ is $1024$.

And $1024=32\times 32$

Hence, if $24$ more plants are added to $1000$,

then no. of rows and columns will be same.