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6.1 Introduction
This is a story about one of India’s great mathematical geniuses, S. Ramanujan. Once
another famous mathematician Prof. G.H. Hardy came to visit him in a taxi whose number
was 1729. While talking to Ramanujan, Hardy described this number
“a dull number”. Ramanujan quickly pointed out that 1729 was indeed Hardy – Ramanujan
Number
interesting. He said it is the smallest number that can be expressed
as a sum of two cubes in two different ways: 1729 is the smallest Hardy–
Ramanujan Number. There
1729 = 1728 + 1 = 123 + 13
are an infinitely many such
1729 = 1000 + 729 = 103 + 93 numbers. Few are 4104
1729 has since been known as the Hardy – Ramanujan Number, (2, 16; 9, 15), 13832 (18, 20;
even though this feature of 1729 was known more than 300 years 2, 24), Check it with the
before Ramanujan. numbers given in the brackets.
How did Ramanujan know this? Well, he loved numbers. All
through his life, he experimented with numbers. He probably found
numbers that were expressed as the sum of two squares and sum of
two cubes also.
There are many other interesting patterns of cubes. Let us learn about cubes, cube
roots and many other interesting facts related to them.
Figures which have
6.2 Cubes 3-dimensions are known as
You know that the word ‘cube’ is used in geometry. A cube is solid figures.
a solid figure which has all its sides equal. How many cubes of
side 1 cm will make a cube of side 2 cm?
How many cubes of side 1 cm will make a cube of side 3 cm?
Consider the numbers 1, 8, 27, ...
These are called perfect cubes or cube numbers. Can you say why
they are named so? Each of them is obtained when a number is multiplied by
taking it three times.
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Number Cube
1 13 = 1
2 23 = 8
3 33 = 27
The numbers 729, 1000, 1728 Complete it.
4 43 = 64
are also perfect cubes.
5 53 = ____
6 63 = ____
7 73 = ____
8 83 = ____
9 93 = ____
10 103 = ____
There are only ten perfect cubes from 1 to 1000. (Check this). How many perfect
cubes are there from 1 to 100?
Observe the cubes of even numbers. Are they all even? What can you say about the
cubes of odd numbers?
Following are the cubes of the numbers from 11 to 20.
Table 2
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Consider a few numbers having 1 as the one’s digit (or unit’s). Find the cube of each
of them. What can you say about the one’s digit of the cube of a number having 1 as the
one’s digit?
Similarly, explore the one’s digit of cubes of numbers ending in 2, 3, 4, ... , etc.
TRY THESE
Find the one’s digit of the cube of each of the following numbers.
(i) 3331 (ii) 8888 (iii) 149 (iv) 1005
(v) 1024 (vi) 77 (vii) 5022 (viii) 53
TRY THESE
Express the following numbers as the sum of odd numbers using the above pattern?
(a) 63 (b) 83 (c) 73
Consider the following pattern.
23 – 13 = 1 + 2 × 1 × 3
33 – 23 = 1 + 3 × 2 × 3
43 – 33 = 1 + 4 × 3 × 3
Using the above pattern, find the value of the following.
(i) 73 – 63 (ii) 123 – 113 (iii) 203 – 193 (iv) 513 – 503
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Which of the following are perfect cubes?
1. 400 2. 3375 3. 8000 4. 15625
5. 9000 6. 6859 7. 2025 8. 10648
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Hence the smallest natural number by which 392 should be multiplied to make a perfect
cube is 7.
Example 3: Is 53240 a perfect cube? If not, then by which smallest natural number
should 53240 be divided so that the quotient is a perfect cube?
Solution: 53240 = 2 × 2 × 2 × 11 × 11 × 11 × 5
The prime factor 5 does not appear in a group of three. So, 53240 is not a perfect cube.
In the factorisation 5 appears only one time. If we divide the number by 5, then the prime
factorisation of the quotient will not contain 5.
So, 53240 ÷ 5 = 2 × 2 × 2 × 11 × 11 × 11
Hence the smallest number by which 53240 should be divided to make it a perfect
cube is 5.
The perfect cube in that case is = 10648.
Example 4: Is 1188 a perfect cube? If not, by which smallest natural number should
1188 be divided so that the quotient is a perfect cube?
Solution: 1188 = 2 × 2 × 3 × 3 × 3 × 11
The primes 2 and 11 do not appear in groups of three. So, 1188 is not a perfect cube. In
the factorisation of 1188 the prime 2 appears only two times and the prime 11 appears
once. So, if we divide 1188 by 2 × 2 × 11 = 44, then the prime factorisation of the
quotient will not contain 2 and 11.
Hence the smallest natural number by which 1188 should be divided to make it a
perfect cube is 44.
And the resulting perfect cube is 1188 ÷ 44 = 27 (=33).
Example 5: Is 68600 a perfect cube? If not, find the smallest number by which 68600
must be multiplied to get a perfect cube.
Solution: We have, 68600 = 2 × 2 × 2 × 5 × 5 × 7 × 7 × 7. In this factorisation, we
find that there is no triplet of 5.
So, 68600 is not a perfect cube. To make it a perfect cube we multiply it by 5.
Thus, 68600 × 5 = 2 × 2 × 2 × 5 × 5 × 5 × 7 × 7 × 7
= 343000, which is a perfect cube.
Observe that 343 is a perfect cube. From Example 5 we know that 343000 is also
perfect cube.
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EXERCISE 6.1
1. Which of the following numbers are not perfect cubes?
(i) 216 (ii) 128 (iii) 1000 (iv) 100
(v) 46656
2. Find the smallest number by which each of the following numbers must be multiplied
to obtain a perfect cube.
(i) 243 (ii) 256 (iii) 72 (iv) 675
(v) 100
3. Find the smallest number by which each of the following numbers must be divided to
obtain a perfect cube.
(i) 81 (ii) 128 (iii) 135 (iv) 192
(v) 704
4. Parikshit makes a cuboid of plasticine of sides 5 cm, 2 cm, 5 cm. How many such
cuboids will he need to form a cube?
13 = 1 3
1 =1 63 = 216 3
216 = 6
23 = 8 3
8 = 3
23 = 2 73 = 343 3
343 = 7
33 = 27 3
27 = 3
33 = 3 83 = 512 3
512 = 8
43 = 64 3
64 = 4 93 = 729 3
729 = 9
53 = 125 3
125 = 5 103 = 1000 3
1000 = 10
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74088 = 2 × 2 × 2 × 3 × 3 × 3 × 7 × 7 × 7 = 23 × 33 × 73 = (2 × 3 × 7)3
Therefore, 3
74088 = 2 × 3 × 7 = 42
Example 6: Find the cube root of 8000.
Solution: Prime factorisation of 8000 is 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 5 × 5 × 5
So, 3
8000 = 2 × 2 × 5 = 20
Example 7: Find the cube root of 13824 by prime factorisation method.
Solution:
13824 = 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 × 3 × 3 × 3 = 23 × 23 × 23 × 33.
Therefore, 3
13824 = 2 × 2 × 2 × 3 = 24
EXERCISE 6.2
1. Find the cube root of each of the following numbers by prime factorisation method.
(i) 64 (ii) 512 (iii) 10648 (iv) 27000
(v) 15625 (vi) 13824 (vii) 110592 (viii) 46656
(ix) 175616 (x) 91125
2. State true or false.
(i) Cube of any odd number is even.
(ii) A perfect cube does not end with two zeros.
(iii) If square of a number ends with 5, then its cube ends with 25.
(iv) There is no perfect cube which ends with 8.
(v) The cube of a two digit number may be a three digit number.
(vi) The cube of a two digit number may have seven or more digits.
(vii) The cube of a single digit number may be a single digit number.
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