SOLUTION: I am a home educator who is having trouble with a word problem using two variables-digit problems. Find a three-digit number whose units digit is 3 times its hundreds digit and

Question 399156: I am a home educator who is having trouble with a word problem using two variables-digit problems.
Find a three-digit number whose units digit is 3 times its hundreds digit and 2 times its tens digit, and the sum of whose digits is 11.
Do they mean that u=3(100h) and u is also equal to 2(10h)?
h+t+u=11
That's as far as I have gotten. Help!
Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
I am a home educator who is having trouble with a word problem using two variables-digit problems.
Find a three-digit number whose units digit is 3 times its hundreds digit and 2 times its tens digit, and the sum of whose digits is 11.
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h + t + u = 11
u = 3h
u = 2t
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h = u/3
t = u/2
Sub for h & t
u/3 + u/2 + u = 11
2u + 3u + 6u = 66
11u = 66
u = 6
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h = 2
t = 3
--> 236
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Do they mean that u=3(100h) and u is also equal to 2(10h)?
h+t+u=11

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