SOLUTION: If you place 1 before a number, the new number is 3 times as large as the original number. What is the original number?
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Question 764323: If you place 1 before a number, the new number is 3 times as large as the original number. What is the original number?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
This seems to be an open ended problem. We are not given how many digits the original number.
ONE DIGIT, U
Putting 1 in front, ,
which seems to work.
TWO DIGIT, TU
Putting 1 in front, ,
simplify to
, which when examined for the digits possible to satisfy, becomes and ;
is the only two digit number.
You can try similar process for three and more digit numbers.
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