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The number 132 is a three digit number with three distinct digits that is equal to the sum of all two digit numbers that are made up of its three digits:
What is the largest three digit number with this property?
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In the sum on the right, each digit appears twice in the tens column and twice in the units column. So if the digits are and
we have
If this equation becomes
, but this has no solutions as the right-hand-side is at most
(as
and
are both at most
. If
then the equation becomes
. For values of
between
and
,
is a multiple of
only when
or
, and only
gives a value of
that is between
and
(
). So the largest values is
.
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