2014 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 22
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Problem 22
A 
-digit number is such that the product of the digits plus the sum of the digits is equal to the number. What is the units digit of the number?
Solution
Let the number is 
, then we have 
. 
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Video Solution by OmegaLearn
https://youtu.be/7an5wU9Q5hk?t=2226
Video Solution 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX3BxKW_wTU ~David
Video Solution 3
https://youtu.be/AR3Ke23N1I8 ~savannahsolver
Video Solution for Problems 21-25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S0u_fDjSxc
Solution
We can think of the number as 
, where a is the tens digit and b is the unit digit. Since the number is equal to the product of the digits (
) plus the sum of the digits (
), we can say that 
. We can simplify this to 
, which factors to 
. Dividing by 
, we have that 
. Therefore, the units digit, 
, is 
Solution 2
A two digit number is namely , where and are digits in which 
and 
. Therefore, we can make an equation with this information. We obtain 
. This is just 
Moving and to the right side, we get 
Cancelling out the s, we get 
which is our desired answer as is the second digit. Thus the answer is 
.
~mathboy
See Also
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