72b384 is a number in which one of its digits is ‘b'. If the number is a multiple of 9, what is the numerical value of ‘b'?
1 answer:
A number is divisible by 9 if and only if the sum of its digits is divisible by 9.
So, the sum of the digits of your number is
Since b ranges from 0 to 9 (it is a digit and it can't have any other values), 24+b ranges from 24 to 33. The only multiple of 9 in this range is 27, which we obtain by choosing b=3.
So, the only way to choose a value for b in order to make your number divisible by 9 is choosing b=3 and thus getting the number 723384, and indeed we have
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