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Problem 76

AMC 10/12, early questions

Number theory Difficulty 3.4 Find the answer

The number $2013$ has the property that its units digit is the sum of its other digits, that is $2+0+1=3$ . How many integers less than $2013$ but greater than $1000$ have this property?
$\textbf{(A)}\ 33\qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 34\qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 45\qquad\textbf{(D)}\ 46\qquad\textbf{(E)}\ 58$

Your answer

Official solution

We take cases on the thousands digit, which must be either $1$ or $2$ :
If the number is of the form $\overline{1bcd},$ where $b, c, d$ are digits, then we must have $d = 1 + b + c.$ Since $d \le 9,$ we must have $b + c \le 9 - 1 = 8.$ By casework on the value of $b$ , we find that there are $1 + 2 + \dots + 9 = 45$ possible pairs $(b, c)$ , and each pair uniquely determines the value of $d$ , so we get $45$ numbers with the given property.
If the number is of the form $\overline{2bcd},$ then it must be one of the numbers $2000, 2001, \dots, 2012.$ Checking all these numbers, we find that only $2002$ has the given property.
Therefore, the number of numbers with the property is $45 + 1 = \boxed{\textbf{(D)}46}$ .

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