document.write( "Question 780063: The number has 3 digits. The number is even. The tens digits is half the hundreds digit. The sum of the digits is 14. What is the number? \n" ); document.write( "
Algebra.Com's Answer #475830 by Edwin McCravy(20060) You can put this solution on YOUR website! The tens digits is half the hundreds digit. \n" ); document.write( " \r\n" ); document.write( "That narrows it down to these four types of numbers\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "21_, 42_, 63_, 84_\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "We only need to fill in the blank for the units digit.\r\n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " The sum of the digits is 14. \n" ); document.write( " \r\n" ); document.write( "21_ is ruled out because you can't put 11 in the right blank.\r\n" ); document.write( "63_ is ruled out because you can't put 5 in the blank, because\r\n" ); document.write( "that would make it an odd number 645.\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "So it's either 42_ or 84_\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "To make the sum of the digits be 14, it could either be \r\n" ); document.write( "428 or 842\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "Two possible answers.\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "Edwin\n" ); document.write( " |