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| Question 758234:  Please help me solve this?
 My Question,
 Find all two digit numbers n such that N+2 is also a two digit  number and the digit sum of N+2 is less than the digit sum of N
 My working out?
 N+2= 2 digit number which has to be bigger than the sum of N+2
 Answer by josmiceli(19441)
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You can put this solution on YOUR website! It looks like  is as high as you can go because if
  , then  , which is 3 digits
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 I could also state a rule that for any pair of 2-digit numbers,
 
  and  , if the 10s digit does not change when you go from one to the other, then the sum of the digits
 of
  will always be greater than the sum of the digits of
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 That means that if the digits of
  are  ( for tens ) and
  ( for units ), then only in the cases where 
  and  will he digit sums of  be less than the digit sums of
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 So, the required number pairs are:
 18, 20
 19, 21
 28, 30
 29, 31
 38, 40
 39, 41
 48, 50
 49, 51
 58, 60
 59, 61
 . . . . .
 88, 90
 89, 91
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