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In a school with 100 lockers, all initially closed, 100 students walk by. Student 1 toggles every locker. Student 2 toggles every second locker. Student 3 toggles every third locker, and so on, until

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1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81, 100\text{1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81, 100}

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Here's how Khoisnam figured out which lockers would be open:

  1. Understanding the Locker Toggling

    Each locker starts in a closed state. When a locker is "toggled," its state changes: if it's open, it closes; if it's closed, it opens.

    • If a locker is toggled an odd number of times, it will end up open.
    • If a locker is toggled an even number of times, it will end up closed.
  2. Determining How Many Times Each Locker is Toggled

    Locker number nn is toggled by person number kk if nn is a multiple of kk. This means that kk is a divisor of nn.
    Therefore, the total number of times a locker nn is toggled is equal to the number of its divisors.

  3. Identifying Lockers That Remain Open

    For a locker to remain open, it must be toggled an odd number of times. This means its number must have an odd number of divisors.
    A positive integer has an odd number of divisors if and only if it is a perfect square.

  4. Listing the Perfect Squares

    Khoisnam would have identified all the perfect squares between 1 and 100. These are the numbers of the lockers that will remain open:

    12=11^2 = 1 22=42^2 = 4 32=93^2 = 9 42=164^2 = 16 52=255^2 = 25 62=366^2 = 36 72=497^2 = 49 82=648^2 = 64 92=819^2 = 81 102=10010^2 = 100

    Khoisnam figured out that the lockers corresponding to these perfect square numbers would be the ones to remain open.

    The lockers that will be open at the end are:
    1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81, 100\text{1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81, 100}

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