CEMC Euclid, 2009

Number theory Difficulty 3.0 AMC 10/12 Prove it Canada

An integer $n$ , with $100 \leq n \leq 999$ , is chosen at random. What is the probability that the sum of the digits of $n$ is $24$ ?

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