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Math Challenge I-A Spring 2019 Week 5

 
 
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Math Challenge I-A Spring 2019 Week 5
TAmy - 2019年03月30日 Saturday 18:39
 

find the smallest positive integer consisting entirely of 11's and 77's, at least one of each, that is divisible by 55 and 99.


but numbers that is divisible by 5 have to end in 0 or 5, and 1 and 7 wouldn't work 

 
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Re: Math Challenge I-A Spring 2019 Week 5
ReynosoDavid - 2019年04月1日 Monday 10:36
 

You are correct, Amy! It is not possible to have such a number.