Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Wednesday, June 20th

Problem
Find all positive integers that are 700 times the sum of its digits.

Solution
This statement is equivalent to the 700 replaced by 7. If $d$ is the number of digits, then the maximum value of 7 times the sum of digits is $63d$ and the minimum value of the number is $10^{d-1}$, hence the maximum value of $d$ is 3. Let $n=100a+10b+c$, where $a,b,c$ are digits, then
$100a+10b+c=7a+7b+7c$
and hence $93a+3b=6c$. 


Therefore $a=0$ and $b=2c$. The only posibilities for $b$ and $c$ are $(2,1)$, $(4,2)$, $(6,3)$, and $(8,4)$, thus the only numbers that satisfy the problem are $m=2100, 4200,6300$ and $8400$.




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