Question

The number $212542$ is in the scale of six; in what scale will it be denoted by $17486$?

Answer 1

Converting $212542$ from scale six to decimal we have,

$2\times 6^0+4\times 6^1+5\times 6^2+2\times 6^3+1\times 6^4+2\times 6^5=17486$

Hence, scale is $10$.