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Homework Help Forum: math

Posted by lony on Tuesday, September 1, 2009 at 3:44am.

the digits of a certain number of 3 arithmetical digits are in arithmetical progression.Their sum is 15.And the number is 129 times the first digit.What is the number???

by using the formula..

please...

  • math - Damon, Tuesday, September 1, 2009 at 5:53am

    n, n+1, n+2

    3n+3=15
    100n+10(n+1)+n+2 = 129n

    n = 4
    check
    400 +50 +6 = 516 ? No

    try
    n, n+2, n+3
    3n+5 = 15
    n = 10/3 no

    n, n+3, n+6
    3n+9 = 15
    n = 2
    200 + 50 + 8 = 258 YES !
    so number is
    258

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