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Need (more) help from the CP math whizzes
My wife volunteers at the middle school to coach kids for a local math contest called Math Is Cool. For the contest, kids have to take a variety of tests, some individual and some team tests, as well as a "College Bowl" type team to team competition.
Anyway, to prepare for teaching the kids, she works through the problems on old tests so she can explain to the kids at practice. She ran into this problem and couldn't figure out a quick solution: Quote:
First of all, you have the nine "10's": 10, 20, 30, 40, etc Then you have the nine "9's": 18, 27, 36, 45, etc After that, there are only six other numbers: two "3's": 12, 21, two "6's": 24, 42, and and two "12's: 48, 84 (when I say a number is a "9's", I mean the digits add up to 9: 18 > 1+8=9) That adds up to 24. However, 90 is on both the 10's and 9's list so you have to subtract one to get 23. We also noticed that all multiple of 12 and of 21 are on the list but are not sure how that helps. So - is there a quick way to do this problem to explain to the kids if they run into something like this? Last edited by Frosty; 03-03-2013 at 05:53 PM.. |
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