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Problem
Sarah intended to multiply a two-digit number and a three-digit number, but she left out the multiplication sign and simply placed the two-digit number to the left of the three-digit number, thereby forming a five-digit number. This number is exactly nine times the product Sarah should have obtained. What is the sum of the two-digit number and the three-digit number?
Solution
Let be the two-digit number,
be the three-digit number. Putting together the given, we have
. Using SFFT, this factorizes to
, and
.
Since , we can use trial and error on factors of 1000. If
, we get a non-integer. If
, we get
and
, which satisifies the conditions. Hence the answer is
.
Solution 2
As shown above, we have , so
.
must be just a little bit smaller than 9, so we find
,
, and the solution is
.
Solution 3
To begin, we rewrite
as
and
This is the most important part: Notice is
and
is
. That means
divides
. Rewrite
as
.
Now we have to find a number that divides 1000 using prime factors 2 or 5 and is . It is quick to find there is only one: 125. That gives 14 as
and 112 as
. Therefore the answer is
.
-jackshi2006
See also
1997 AIME (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | ||
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Followed by Problem 4 | |
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