A rogue, and a scallywag

Bradan is thinking of a positive integer. The integer is either 3 digits with the last two digits equal to 21, or the integer is 2 digits with the first digit equal to 2. How many different integers could Bradan be thinking of?

Details and assumptions

The number 12 = 012 12=012 is a 2-digit number, not a 3-digit number.


The answer is 19.

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11 solutions

Ayon Pal
Oct 7, 2013

The 3 digit integer may be 121, 221, 321, 421, 521, 621, 721, 821, 921. And the number is 9

And the 2 digit integer may be 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29. Total 10 integer.

So, there are 10 + 9 = 19 10+9= 19 different integer could Bradan be thinking of

Oh dang it; I had that, separately, but didn't add it together.

Sonia Ball - 7 years, 8 months ago

infirst case in first position we can put 1 to 9 means nine ways and in second part we can use 0 to 9 means ten ways as there or so 10+9=19

damn, its so easy but I'm not understand english language very well.

Abdul Ghofur - 7 years, 8 months ago
Trevor B.
Oct 6, 2013

An integer with the last two digits known and the first one unknown can have 9 9 possible first digits (and not 10 10 because 0 0 cannot be the first digit of a number. An integer with the first digit known and the last digit unknown can have 10 10 possible ending digits. 9 + 10 = 19 9+10=\boxed{19} .

Somesh Narwade
Feb 10, 2014

Three digit numbers having 21 as last two digits are 121,221,321,421,521,621,721,821,921 so these are 9 3-digit numbers bradan could be thinking of.2-digit no. having 2 as first digit are from 20 to 29 so these are 10 numbers.In total there are 9+10=19 numbers bradan could possibly think of.

Yiheng Pan
Oct 10, 2013

Since the first two digits of the three digit number is fixed, there are only 9 possibilities from 1 to 9 as 0 is not applicable. for the two digit number, since it is the ones digit, there are ten possibilities from 0 to 9. In this case, 10+9=19

Ripas Filqadar
Oct 9, 2013

its simple for 3 digits = 9 1 1; because two last digit must 21 for 2 digits=10, (from 0 -9)

Ahaan Rungta
Oct 7, 2013

Clearly, if the number has 3 3 digits, there are 9 9 choices for the first digit, and the other two digits are fixed. If the number has two digits, the first digit is fixed, and there are 10 10 choices for the second digit.

Thus, there are a total of 9 + 10 = 19 9 + 10 = \boxed {19} integers Bradan could be thinking of.

Ant6880 C
Oct 13, 2013

So, we have the three-digit number, of which 2 digits are given to us, and the two-digit number, of which 1 digit is given to us. So, there is only one digit in each number that can change. We cannot use 0 as the missing digit for the first number. So our choices for those missing digits are immediately limited to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 for the first number, and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 0 for the second number. Count all those and you get 19, which is the answer

Vaibhav Reddy
Oct 12, 2013

Now first possibility goes like this : a21 is a three digit number.....so a must be an integer from 1 to 9....so there we have 9 possibilities.(a cannot be equal to 0 or else it would be a two digit number.) Then the second possibility is : 2b is a two digit number.... but here b must be an integer from 0 to 9.....so there are 10 possibilities. Hence total possibilities should be 10+9=19 possibilities.

Anne Hao
Oct 9, 2013

There are 9 three-digit numbers ending with 21, and 10 two-digit numbers that has a tens digit of 2. 9+10=19. Therefore, the answer is 19.

Daniel Ferreira
Oct 6, 2013

Seja x 21 x21 o número de três algarismos. Os possíveis valores que "x" pode assumir são: {1, 2, 3, ..., 8, 9}. Portanto, 9 possibilidades! Veja:

9 1 + 1 = 9 \\ 9 - 1 + 1 = \\ 9

Já o número de dois dígitos é dado por 2 y 2y , então, os possíveis algarismos de "y" são: {0, 1, 2,..., 8, 9}.

Por isso,

9 0 + 1 = 10 \\ 9 - 0 + 1 = \\ 10

Segue que,

9 + 10 = 19 9 + 10 = \\ \boxed{19}

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