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”God has created the Natural Numbers, but everything else is a man’s work.”
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Created by Inna Shapiro ©2006
What are natural numbers?
Natural numbers are
the ones that we use to
count: 1, 2, 3,4,5… etc. For example, all of us
know that 4 quarters
make a dollar, but in
Math we write it as
4*25 = 100
.
In this section we will explore the magical relations between the natural numbers.
What are natural numbers?
Problem 1 Peter wrote in notepad on his
desk a two-digit number. Adam, who sat right in front of Peter, turned back and saw another number, that was actually less than Peter’s number by 75.
What was the original number that Peter wrote?
Answer
9191 Turn 91 upside-down, and you Turn 91 upside-down, and you
getget
91-75 = 16 91-75 = 16
Problem 2
Write twenty 5-s. Place some addition
signs between them, so that
the result would be 1000
5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
Answer
555+55+55+55+55+55+55+55+55+5=1.000
Problem 3
B) Construct 1,000,000 using six numbers 10.
A) Can you get 1,000,000 using
three numbers 100 and “ + ”, “ - ”, “ * ”
Answer
A) 1,000,000 = 100*100*100 B) 1,000,000 = 10*10*10*10*10*10
Problem 4
Adam wrote 686. How can he get a number
greater than this one by 303
without doing any addition /
subtraction / multiplication /
division etc. ?
Answer
Turn 686 upside down, and you get 989.
Problem 5
Can you write a seven-digit number so that
the sum of its digits is two? How many of such numbers are there? Can you write all such numbers?
Answer 2,000,000 1,100,000 1,010,000 1,001,000 1,000,100 1,000,010 1,000,001
Problem 6
Mary wrote down all two-digit numbers.
How many of them have at least one digit equal to 3?
Answer
Ten numbers begin with 3: 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39
and nine numbers end with 3:3, 13, 23, 33, 43, 53, 63, 73, 83, 93,
but we counted 33 twice, so there are 18 numbers that contain at least one digit equal to 3.
Problem 7
Helen tried to use every digit to compose a number. What is the
smallest number she can compose?
What is the smallest such number
that could be divided by 5?
Answer
1,023,456,789 1,023,467,895
Problem 8
Bill wrote number 513,879,406 and asked his Dad to erase four digits in two different ways in order to get the maximal and minimal answers possible. Which four digits should his dad remove in both cases and what numbers is he going to get?
Answer
89,406 13,406
Problem 9
A block of pages is missing from a book. The number of the first missing page is 143, and the number of the last one is made of the same three digits.
How many pages are missing?
Answer
The number of last missing page could
be 341,431,413 or 314. It has to be even, because the first one was odd. So it has to be 314, and the total number of pages missing is314 – 142 = 172 pages
Problem 10
How many four-digit numbers can you
write using the digits 0, 1, 2 and 3, in such a way that 0 and 2 are not adjacent?
Answer
8 numbers: 2310, 2130, 2301, 2103, 3210, 3012, 1230, 1032.