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QA - Common Prime Numbers: Solution Sum Total of The Number 32 + A

This document provides divisibility rules for common prime numbers like 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11. It explains that a number is divisible by 2 if the last digit is even, divisible by 3 if the sum of the digits is divisible by 3, and divisible by 5 if the last digit is 0 or 5. It also gives examples of applying these rules to determine if a number is divisible by a given prime number.

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QA - Common Prime Numbers: Solution Sum Total of The Number 32 + A

This document provides divisibility rules for common prime numbers like 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11. It explains that a number is divisible by 2 if the last digit is even, divisible by 3 if the sum of the digits is divisible by 3, and divisible by 5 if the last digit is 0 or 5. It also gives examples of applying these rules to determine if a number is divisible by a given prime number.

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QA – Common Prime Numbers

DIVISIBILITY RULES (FOR DECIMAL SYSTEM)


For powers of 2
For 2 If unit digit of any number is 0, 2, 4, 6 or 8, then that number will be divisible by 2.
For 4 If last two digits of a number are divisible by 4, then that number will be divisible by 4
(e.g., 3796, 248, 1256).
For 8 If last 3 digits of the number are divisible by 8, then the number itself will be divisible
by 8 e.g., 128, 4568, '6232 etc.
For 16 If last 4 digits of the number are divisible by 16, then the number itself will be
divisible by 16 e.g., 11296, 61792, 64944 etc.

For 3 and 9
For 3 If sum total of all the digits of any number is divisible by 3, then the number will be
divisible by 3.'(e.g., 123, 456 etc.)
Example: How many values of A are possible if 3245684A is divisible by 3?
Solution Sum total of the number = 32 + A
For this number to be divisible by 3, A can take three values, namely. 1 or 4 or 7. (No other
values are possible since A is the unit digit of the number.)
For 9 If sum of the digits of the number is divisible by 9, then the number will be divisible by
9 e.g., 129835782.
1 + 2 + 9 + 8 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 8 + 2 = 45. Since 45 is divisible by 9, then the number will be
divisible by 9.
Example: How many pairs of A and B are possible in number 89765 A4B if the number is
divisible by 9, given that last digit of the number is even?
Solution Sum of digits of number is 8 + 9 + 7 + 6 + 5 -A-4 + B = 39+A + B.
So. A'+ B should be 6 or 15. Next value should be 24 but since A and B are digits so it
can't be more than 18. Possible pairs of A and B are

A B
6
1 5
2 4
3 3
4 2
5 1
6 0
7 8

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QA – Common Prime Numbers

8 7
9 6
6 9

Since B is even, six possible set of values of A and

Any digit it is written continuously 3 times, 6 times, 9 times… etc. then it is divisible by 3
e.g., 111; 555555; 777777; 222222222; 888, 222 etc.

For powers of 5
For 5 If last digit of the number is 5 or 0, then that number will be divisible by 5.
For 25 If last 2 digits of the number are divisible by 25, then that number will be divisible by
25.
For 125 If last 3 digits of the number are divisible by 125, then that number will be divisible
by 125.

For 11
A number is divisible by 11, if the difference between sum of the digits at the even places
and the sum digits at the odd places is divisible by 11 (zero is divisible by 11) e.g., 6595149 is
divisible by 11 as the difference of 6 + 9 + 1 + 9 = 25 and 5 + 5 + 4 = 14 is 11.

7, 11 and 13
Any number formed by repeating a particular digit 6 times is divisible by 7, 11 and 13.
This is because a 6 digit number of the form bbbbbb is equal to bbb x 1001 and 1001 = 7 x 11 x 13.

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