Problem:
Determine all three-digit positive integers that are equal to 34 times the sum of their digits.
Problem:
Determine all three-digit positive integers that are equal to 34 times the sum of their digits.
Solution:
The required integers are 102, 204, 306, 408.
Indeed, let us denote by , respectively, the hundreds digit, the tens digit, the units digit of a 3-digit integer. The given condition then translates into , from which, after simple algebraic steps, we obtain .
From this it follows that must be a multiple of 11, but since , the only possibility is that , and consequently also . Substituting for the values one obtains the 4 integers listed above, which one easily verifies are indeed solutions of the problem. For or , on the other hand, no 3-digit integers are obtained.