Which of the following methods cannot be used as a trick by a mathemagician to find your final answer?
A. Think of a single-digit positive integer. Multiply by 37 and add 74. Multiply by 3 and then subtract 222. Divide by your initial number. I can tell you what the answer is!
B. Think of a positive integer. Multiply by 10. Add 9 and subtract the original number. Now find the repeated sum of digits. I can tell you what the answer is!
C. Think of a positive integer. Multiply the number by 10. Find the repeated sum of digits. Subtract this from your original number. I can tell you what the answer is!
Note: Repeated sum of digits means that you take the digit sum of the number repeatedly until you end up with a single-digit number.
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A. Let the number be n = 1 0 − x , x ∈ W . Therefore as the statement guides \ × 3 7 ⟹ 3 7 ( n ) = 3 7 n + 7 4 ⟹ 3 7 n + 7 4 × 3 − 2 2 2 ⟹ 3 ( 3 7 n + 7 4 ) = 1 1 1 n + 2 2 2 − 2 2 2 divide ⟹ n 1 1 1 n = 1 1 1
B. Let the number be n . Let the next number be 1 0 n + 9 − n = 9 n + 9 = 9 ( n + 1 ) Now the new number is a multiple of 9 which have a unique property that sum of all digits of multiples of 9 is 9 except 0 .
C. Let the number be n . The next number would be 1 0 n . If we want to find repeated sum of digits you will have r e p e a t e d s u m o f d i g i t s o f n + 0 . Then when you subtract you will have r ( n ) − n . Let n = 1 0 a + b
r ( n ) = a + b r ( n ) − n = a + b − n
And this continues for all n-digit number. So it depends on the number you choose.