SOLUTION: Kaylene was asked to number the pages of a book. when she had numbered the last page, she had counted a total of 822 digits. how many 3- digit numbered pages were there'

Question 1044050: Kaylene was asked to number the pages of a book. when she had numbered the last page, she had counted a total of 822 digits. how many 3- digit numbered pages were there'
Answer by KMST(5328) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
THE FIFTH GRADER'S SOLUTION:
Pages 1 to 9 are numbered with 1 digit each.
That is digits.
Pages to are the nxt pages,
and each one of those pages is numbered with digits each.
That amounts to another digits.
Beyond page 99, there are digits each,
which would amount to digits.
Clearly, that book has less than 999 pages.
The first pages use digits in their numbering.
The next digits are found,
on each page, in the next couple of hundred pages.
How many pages after page are there?
.
If there are pages after page ,
the number on the last page is .
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