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prealgebra junior

Problem

Mary thought of a positive two-digit number. She multiplied it by and added . Then she switched the digits of the result, obtaining a number between and , inclusive. What was Mary's number?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Solution
Let her -digit number be . Multiplying by makes it a multiple of , meaning that the sum of its digits is divisible by . Adding on increases the sum of the digits by (we can ignore numbers such as ) and reversing the digits keeps the sum of the digits the same; this means that the resulting number must be more than a multiple of . There are two such numbers between and : and Now that we have narrowed down the choices, we can simply test the answers to see which one will provide a two-digit number when the steps are reversed: For we reverse the digits, resulting in Subtracting , we get We can already see that dividing this by will not be a two-digit number, so does not meet our requirements. Therefore, the answer must be the reversed steps applied to We have the following: Therefore, our answer is .
Final answer
B