Find the smallest positive integer that ends with 26, the sum of its digits is 26 and is divisible by 26.
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Given the last two digit is 26 and the number is also divisible by 26, we can put it into the form of 2 6 ( 1 0 0 x ) + 2 6 = 2 6 ( 1 0 0 x + 1 ) . Since the sum of the remaining digit is 18, we will have the find the number x which produce the sum of digit in 2 6 x as 18
As 2 6 x = 9 9 , we have to look for combination of three-digit number of 2 6 x that is a multiple of 9 (as the remaining digit has a sum of 18 which means the number is divisible by 9). Given that 26 does not have any multiple of 3 , it is safe we can try x = 9 j when j = 1 , 2 , 3 , … . The least j which produce sum of the digit in 2 3 4 j as 18 is j = 2 and the digit is 4 6 8
Therefore, the least number possible is 4 6 8 2 6