# Difference between revisions of "2018 AMC 10B Problems/Problem 13"

## Problem

How many of the first $2018$ numbers in the sequence $101, 1001, 10001, 100001, \dots$ are divisible by $101$?

$\textbf{(A) }253 \qquad \textbf{(B) }504 \qquad \textbf{(C) }505 \qquad \textbf{(D) }506 \qquad \textbf{(E) }1009 \qquad$

~ pi_is_3.14

## Solution 1

The number $10^n+1$ is divisible by 101 if and only if $10^n\equiv -1\pmod{101}$. We note that $(10,10^2,10^3,10^4)\equiv (10,-1,-10,1)\pmod{101}$, so the powers of 10 are 4-periodic mod 101.

It follows that $10^n\equiv -1\pmod{101}$ if and only if $n\equiv 2\pmod 4$.

In the given list, $10^2+1,10^3+1,10^4+1,\dots,10^{2019}+1$, the desired exponents are $2,6,10,\dots,2018$, and there are $\dfrac{2020}{4}=\boxed{\textbf{(C) } 505}$ numbers in that list.

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## Solution 2

Note that $10^{2k}+1$ for some odd $k$ will suffice $\mod {101}$. Each $2k \in \{2,6,10,\dots,2018\}$, so the answer is $\boxed{\textbf{(C) } 505}$ (AOPS12142015)

## Solution 3

If we divide each number by $101$, we see a pattern occuring in every 4 numbers. $101, 1000001, 10000000001, \dots$. We divide $2018$ by $4$ to get $504$ with $2$ left over. Looking at our pattern of four numbers from above, the first number is divisible by $101$. This means that the first of the $2$ left over will be divisible by $101$, so our answer is $\boxed{\textbf{(C) } 505}$.

## Solution 4

Note that $909$ is divisible by $101$, and thus $9999$ is too. We know that $101$ is divisible and $1001$ isn't so let us start from $10001$. We subtract $9999$ to get 2. Likewise from $100001$ we subtract, but we instead subtract $9999$ times $10$ or $99990$ to get $11$. We do it again and multiply the 9's by $10$ to get $101$. Following the same knowledge, we can use mod $101$ to finish the problem. The sequence will just be subtracting 1, multiplying by 10, then adding 1. Thus the sequence is ${0,-9,-99 ( 2),11, 0, ...}$. Thus it repeats every four. Consider the sequence after the 1st term and we have 2017 numbers. Divide $2017$ by four to get $504$ remainder $1$. Thus the answer is $504$ plus the 1st term or $\boxed{\textbf{(C) } 505}$.