A certain street has 1001 buildings. A sign-maker is contracted to number the houses from 0 to 1000. How many zeroes will he need?
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For the one-digit numbers including 0 , There is only one 0 , and that is 0 itself.
For the two-digit numbers, only numbers ending in 0 are valid; therefore there are nine 0 s.
For the three-digit numbers, there are two 0 s at every multiple of 1 0 0 , one 0 at other multiples of 1 0 , and nine other 0 s in the middle digit of the first ten numbers of every hundred. This adds up to twenty 0 s per hundred, or 1 8 0 0 s total.
There are three 0 s in 1 0 0 0 .
So the total number of 0 s is 1 + 9 + 1 8 0 + 3 = 1 9 3