Friday, April 07, 2006

Second Solution

The numbers a, b, and c are positive integers. Given that b is equal to 5a, c is equal to 11b, and b has the same number of digits as a but half as many digits as c, there are two possible sets of values for a, b, and c. Can you find them both?

One is given in the comments.

2 Comments:

At Friday, April 07, 2006 3:26:00 PM, Blogger Michael said...

One solution is

a = 1
b = 5
c = 55

 
At Sunday, April 16, 2006 7:47:00 AM, Blogger Michael said...

The second solution is

a=19
b=95
c=1045

 

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