SOLUTION: george is reading a novel which has 303 pages. how many times does the digit 3 get printed in the page numbers? how many pages are there which has only one 3 present in the page nu
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Question 941027: george is reading a novel which has 303 pages. how many times does the digit 3 get printed in the page numbers? how many pages are there which has only one 3 present in the page number.
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
For pages 1 - 99, you have the following
pages with at least one 3
3
13
23
33
43
53
63
73
83
93
A total of 3's
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For pages 100 - 199, you have
the same number of 3's, 3's
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For 200 - 299 you have 3's
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Then you have:
300
301
302
303
with more 3's
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3's printed total
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The number of pages that have only 3:
subtract pages:
33
133
233
303
pages with only 3 on page
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