old mystery
There is a king who have a chest of jems.he wants someone to take care of it sohe made a proposal of the cleverest person to take care of it. He asked that in his chest if we remove one jem than it is a perfect square if he divides all his jems in five knights then 1jem remains if he divides his jem in 8 knights then 5 jems remain and the number of jems in chest is a prime number so tell how many jems did the king have
The answer is 101.
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1 solution
101
= 1 + 10²
= 1 + 5 × 20
= 5 + 8 × 12