document.write( "Question 792542: write the smallest 3 digit number with sum of digits 17 \n" ); document.write( "
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document.write( "First we want to have as small of a hundreds digit as possible,\r\n" );
document.write( "since hundreds count more than tens or ones.  So we choose the \r\n" );
document.write( "hundreds digit to be 1.\r\n" );
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document.write( "First we want to have as small of a tens digit as possible,\r\n" );
document.write( "since tens count the more than ones.  To be sure we have\r\n" );
document.write( "the smallest tens digit possible, we make the ones digit\r\n" );
document.write( "as LARGE as possible, so that the tens digit will be as\r\n" );
document.write( "small as possible. So we choose the ones digit as 9, and\r\n" );
document.write( "that leasves 7 for the tens digit, so that the sum of \r\n" );
document.write( "digits is 17.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Answer: 179 is the smallest. \r\n" );
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document.write( "Edwin\r\n" );
document.write( "PS: [If you had been asked for the largest, the answer would have been 980] \r\n" );
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