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Algebra Difficulty 3.9 AMC 10/12 Find the answer South Africa

A palindromic number is a number that reads the same backwards as it does forwards.
For example: $15751$ and $909$ .

a) What is the smallest palindromic number greater than $2016$ ?

b) What is the largest palindromic number less than $2016$ ?

Your answer

A number or a short expression. Spacing and $ signs are ignored.

Solution

a) $2112$ , since the next smaller palindrome is $2002$ , which is less than $2016$ .

b) $2002$ , since $2112$ is the next palindrome.

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