Number 543xy2 is divisible by 42.
Find x and y, and write out how you found them (no calculator allowed).
Find x and y, and write out how you found them (no calculator allowed).
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Yes it worked out early in this case, but x+y could actually be 1,4,7,10,13,16 before you do the tedious div7 check. So that's a lot of trial and error potential!! Imagine if the actual answer had been xy = 79 !ronnie1985 wrote:x+y = 3*n-14
Putting n = 5, x+y = 1. If any one of x and y is 0, the other is 1, and none of 543012 or 543102 is divisible by 7. Hence try x+y = 4, then 543312 is divisible.
Trial and error method, not direct method.
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