document.write( "Question 626199: my daughter is in year 6 at school and has been given maths homework which i cant help her with i have 2 questions but need to be able to show workings out and be able to understand how we got the answer.\r
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document.write( "1) fatma is thinking of a 3 digit odd number. the hundreds digit is 3 times more than the units digit. the sum of the three digits is 4. what number is fatma thinking off\r
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document.write( "2)who am i, i have 3 digit i can only be divived by myself and one. the sum of my digits is 11 i am under 150 \n" );
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Algebra.Com's Answer #394024 by Theo(13342)![]() ![]() You can put this solution on YOUR website! problem number 1: \n" ); document.write( "fatma is thinking of a 3 digit odd number. the hundreds digit is 3 times more than the units digit. the sum of the three digits is 4. what number is fatma thinking of \r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "since the number is odd, the ones digit can only be { 1,3,5,7, or 9 } \n" ); document.write( "since the hundreds digit has to be 3 times the ones digit, it can only be 3 or 9. \n" ); document.write( "3 is 3 times 1 \n" ); document.write( "9 is 3 times 3 \n" ); document.write( "since the sum of the digits has to be equal to 4, we get: \n" ); document.write( "hundreds digit equals 3 \n" ); document.write( "tens digit equals 0 \n" ); document.write( "ones digit equals 1 \n" ); document.write( "the number is 301 \n" ); document.write( "sum of the digits is 4 \n" ); document.write( "hundreds digit is 3 times units digit \n" ); document.write( "number is odd\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "problem number 2: \n" ); document.write( "who am i, i have 3 digits. i can only be divided by myself and one. the sum of my digits is 11. i am under 150.\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "the first digit has to be 1 since the number has to be less than 150. \n" ); document.write( "the sum of all 3 digits have to be equal to 11 \n" ); document.write( "this means the sum of the tens digits and the ones digit has to be 10 because the hundreds digit has to be 1. \n" ); document.write( "you have the following options: \n" ); document.write( "119 \n" ); document.write( "128 \n" ); document.write( "137 \n" ); document.write( "146 \n" ); document.write( "that all since your number has to be below 150. \n" ); document.write( "128 and 146 can't be the number because they are divisible by 2. \n" ); document.write( "you are left with 119 or 137 \n" ); document.write( "the number has to be prime (only divisible by itself or 1 means the number is prime). \n" ); document.write( "both are divisible by 1 \n" ); document.write( "neither is divisible by 2 \n" ); document.write( "neither is divisible by 3 \n" ); document.write( "neither by 4 \n" ); document.write( "neither by 5 \n" ); document.write( "neither by 6 \n" ); document.write( "neither by 7 \n" ); document.write( "neither by 8 \n" ); document.write( "neither by 9 \n" ); document.write( "they look to both be prime. \n" ); document.write( "i checked the web for prime numbers to see if either one or both was on the list. \n" ); document.write( "here's the list i got: \n" ); document.write( "http://wiki.answers.com/Q/List_of_prime_numbers_up_to_200 \n" ); document.write( "i know it was cheating, but i didn't feel like going through the drudgery of testing each one. \n" ); document.write( "from this list, it looks like 137 is the prime number and 119 is not. \n" ); document.write( "that means that 119 must be divisible by something other than 119 or 1. \n" ); document.write( "since i'm basically lazy, i enlisted the help of microsoft excel to find the numbers that are divisible into 119. \n" ); document.write( "the results of that analysis are shown below: \n" ); document.write( " \r\n" ); document.write( " 4 (minus 2 = 2) 2 (minus 2 = 0)\r\n" ); document.write( "number is divisible by 1 and divisible by itself so the total number of numbers\r\n" ); document.write( "it is divisible by are the count minus 2. the count above shows that 119 has\r\n" ); document.write( "2 divisors other than 1 and itself, while 137 has 0 divisors other than 1 and \r\n" ); document.write( "itself. \r\n" ); document.write( "the actual search is below;\r\n" ); document.write( "the first column is the divisor\r\n" ); document.write( "the second column is the number 119 divided by the divisor in column 1.\r\n" ); document.write( "the third column is equal to 1 if the answer is an integer and is equal to\r\n" ); document.write( "0 if the answer is not an integer.\r\n" ); document.write( "the fourth column is the number 137 divided by the divisor in column 1.\r\n" ); document.write( "the fifth column is equal to 1 if the answer is an integer and is equal to \r\n" ); document.write( "0 if the answer is not an integer.\r\n" ); document.write( " \r\n" ); document.write( "1 119 1 137 1\r\n" ); document.write( "2 59.5 0 68.5 0\r\n" ); document.write( "3 39.66666667 0 45.66666667 0\r\n" ); document.write( "4 29.75 0 34.25 0\r\n" ); document.write( "5 23.8 0 27.4 0\r\n" ); document.write( "6 19.83333333 0 22.83333333 0\r\n" ); document.write( "7 17 1 19.57142857 0\r\n" ); document.write( "8 14.875 0 17.125 0\r\n" ); document.write( "9 13.22222222 0 15.22222222 0\r\n" ); document.write( "10 11.9 0 13.7 0\r\n" ); document.write( "11 10.81818182 0 12.45454545 0\r\n" ); document.write( "12 9.916666667 0 11.41666667 0\r\n" ); document.write( "13 9.153846154 0 10.53846154 0\r\n" ); document.write( "14 8.5 0 9.785714286 0\r\n" ); document.write( "15 7.933333333 0 9.133333333 0\r\n" ); document.write( "16 7.4375 0 8.5625 0\r\n" ); document.write( "17 7 1 8.058823529 0\r\n" ); document.write( "18 6.611111111 0 7.611111111 0\r\n" ); document.write( "19 6.263157895 0 7.210526316 0\r\n" ); 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document.write( "114 1.043859649 0 1.201754386 0\r\n" ); document.write( "115 1.034782609 0 1.191304348 0\r\n" ); document.write( "116 1.025862069 0 1.181034483 0\r\n" ); document.write( "117 1.017094017 0 1.170940171 0\r\n" ); document.write( "118 1.008474576 0 1.161016949 0\r\n" ); document.write( "119 1 1 1.151260504 0\r\n" ); document.write( "120 0.991666667 0 1.141666667 0\r\n" ); document.write( "121 0.983471074 0 1.132231405 0\r\n" ); document.write( "122 0.975409836 0 1.12295082 0\r\n" ); document.write( "123 0.967479675 0 1.113821138 0\r\n" ); document.write( "124 0.959677419 0 1.10483871 0\r\n" ); document.write( "125 0.952 0 1.096 0\r\n" ); document.write( "126 0.944444444 0 1.087301587 0\r\n" ); document.write( "127 0.937007874 0 1.078740157 0\r\n" ); document.write( "128 0.9296875 0 1.0703125 0\r\n" ); document.write( "129 0.92248062 0 1.062015504 0\r\n" ); document.write( "130 0.915384615 0 1.053846154 0\r\n" ); document.write( "131 0.908396947 0 1.045801527 0\r\n" ); document.write( "132 0.901515152 0 1.037878788 0\r\n" ); document.write( "133 0.894736842 0 1.030075188 0\r\n" ); document.write( "134 0.888059701 0 1.02238806 0\r\n" ); document.write( "135 0.881481481 0 1.014814815 0\r\n" ); document.write( "136 0.875 0 1.007352941 0\r\n" ); document.write( "137 0.868613139 0 1 1\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "looks like 119 is divisible by 2 numbers. \n" ); document.write( "those numbers are 7 and 17. \n" ); document.write( "looks like i missed 7 in my preliminary analysis since, if i had found it then, i would have saved some additional effort down the road. \n" ); document.write( "119 / 7 = 17 \n" ); document.write( "7 * 17 = 70 + 49 = 119. \n" ); document.write( "that's it. \n" ); document.write( "119 is divisible by 7 or 17. \n" ); document.write( "your answer has to be 137.\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "there was not a formula you could used other than logic. \n" ); document.write( "i tried using a formula in the first problem but it didn't really help much. \n" ); document.write( "it was the logic of numbers and digits and what they could be or not be that led to the solution.\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " |