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How many 3 digit numbers are there such that the greatest digit is larger than the sum of the other 2 digits?

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    You have to look at the possibilities. Work with the largest digit, and count the combinations.

    There is only 1 if the other numbers are 0 and 0, like 300. That's because you can't have 0 as the leading digit.

    There are 4 if there is one 0, like 310 301 103 130

    There are 6 if there are no 0's.

    So the combinations you can have are

    100

    200

    210

    300

    301

    302

    311

    ...

    900

    901 to 902

    911 to 917

    921 to 926

    etc.

    There are a fair number of cases, and then you have to count 1, 4 or 6 for each (depending on the 0's as described above).

    It's a bit tedious, and you have to be careful, but none of that work is at all hard.

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