SOLUTION: SOLVE THE PROBLEM BY USING A SYSTEM OF THREE EQUATIONS IN THREE UNKNOWNS. The sum of the digits of a three-digit number is 11. If the digits are reversed, the new number is 46

Question 315601: SOLVE THE PROBLEM BY USING A SYSTEM OF THREE EQUATIONS IN THREE UNKNOWNS.
The sum of the digits of a three-digit number is 11. If the digits are reversed, the new number is 46 more than five times the old number. If the hundreds digit plus twice the tens digit is equal to the units digit, then what is the number?
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The sum of the digits of a three-digit number is 11.
If the digits are reversed, the new number is 46 more than five times the old number.
If the hundreds digit plus twice the tens digit is equal to the units digit, then what is the number?
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Write an equation for each statement:
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"The sum of the digits of a three-digit number is 11."
x + y + z = 11
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The three digit number = 100x + 10y + z
The reversed number = 100z + 10y + x
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" If the digits are reversed, the new number is 46 more than five times the old number."
100z + 10y + x = 5(100x + 10y + z) + 46
100z + 10y + x = 500x + 50y + 5z + 46
combine on the right
0 = 500x - x + 50y - 10y + 5z - 100z + 46
499x + 40y - 95z = -46
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"the hundreds digit plus twice the tens digit is equal to the units digit,"
x + 2y = z
x + 2y - z = 0
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Three equations, 3 unknowns
:
x + y + z = 11
x +2y - z = 0
-----------------Addition eliminates z
2x + 3y = 11
From the 2nd equation statement, we know that the 1st original digit has to be 1
2(1) + 3y = 11
3y = 11 - 2
3y = 9
y = 3 is the 2nd digit
then
1 + 3 + z = 11
z = 11 - 4
z = 7
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137 is the original number
:
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Check solution in the 2nd statement
If the digits are reversed, the new number is 46 more than five times the old number."
731 = 5(137) + 46
731 = 685 + 46

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