Problem:
How many 6-digit numbers divisible by 33 are palindromes, that is, remain the same when read from right to left?
Problem:
How many 6-digit numbers divisible by 33 are palindromes, that is, remain the same when read from right to left?
Pick one
Solution:
The answer is . Since the number is a palindrome, we can write it as , where are digits and . The divisibility criterion for is then automatically satisfied, since .
For the divisibility criterion for it is necessary that be a multiple of , that is, that the number be a multiple of ; the answer is therefore the number of integers that are multiples of , which are .