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If 7 represents the area of a rectangle, then in how many different ways this rectangle can be drawn so that measures of its sides are natural numbers?


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Different ways of measuring rectangle whose area is 7 and sides natural number are all possible factors of 7.

Different possible factor of 7 is

7=1×7

As we can see 7 can be multiple of 1 and 7 only because it is a prime number.

Hence, only 1 way this rectangle can be drawn so that measures of its sides are natural numbers.


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