SOLUTION: jacob thinks of an odd number between 402 and 418. the sum of the tens digit and ones digit is equal to the hundreds digit. what is jacob's number?

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Question 640099: jacob thinks of an odd number between 402 and 418. the sum of the tens digit and ones digit is equal to the hundreds digit. what is jacob's number?
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The number has to be either 40x or 41x, and then either 0 plus x equals 4 or 1 plus x equals 4. Only one of these choices results in an odd number.

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