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Old 03-02-2013, 07:44 PM   Topic Starter
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Need (more) help from the CP math whizzes

My wife volunteers at the middle school to coach kids for a local math contest called Math Is Cool. For the contest, kids have to take a variety of tests, some individual and some team tests, as well as a "College Bowl" type team to team competition.

Anyway, to prepare for teaching the kids, she works through the problems on old tests so she can explain to the kids at practice. She ran into this problem and couldn't figure out a quick solution:

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The sum of the digits of my 2-digit counting number can be divided into my number with no remainder. How many different numbers could I be thinking of?
Now you can brute force the answer by listing out all 90 numbers but these are timed tests and that would take too long. She did it that way to see if there was a pattern but we couldn't see one that could she could explain.

First of all, you have the nine "10's": 10, 20, 30, 40, etc

Then you have the nine "9's": 18, 27, 36, 45, etc

After that, there are only six other numbers:
two "3's": 12, 21, two "6's": 24, 42, and and two "12's: 48, 84

(when I say a number is a "9's", I mean the digits add up to 9: 18 > 1+8=9)

That adds up to 24. However, 90 is on both the 10's and 9's list so you have to subtract one to get 23.

We also noticed that all multiple of 12 and of 21 are on the list but are not sure how that helps.

So - is there a quick way to do this problem to explain to the kids if they run into something like this?

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