Bases & Digits

What is the value of $1234+2341+3412+4123?$

The sum of two natural numbers is $17{,}402$ . One of the two numbers is divisible by $10$ . If the units digit of that number is erased, the other number is obtained. What is the difference of these two numbers?

Mary thought of a positive two-digit number. She multiplied it by $3$ and added $11$ . Then she switched the digits of the result, obtaining a number between $71$ and $75$ , inclusive. What was Mary's number?

What is the sum of the digits of the square of $111,111,111$ ?

A digital watch displays hours and minutes with AM and PM. What is the largest possible sum of the digits in the display?

The arithmetic mean of the nine numbers in the set $\{9, 99, 999, 9999, \ldots, 999999999\}$ is a $9$ -digit number $M$ , all of whose digits are distinct. The number $M$ doesn't contain the digit

The value of the two-digit number $\underline{a}~\underline{b}$ in base seven equals the value of the two-digit number $\underline{b}~\underline{a}$ in base nine. What is $a+b?$

For which of the following integers $b$ is the base- $b$ number $2021_b - 221_b$ not divisible by $3$ ?

A two-digit positive integer is said to be $\emph{cuddly}$ if it is equal to the sum of its nonzero tens digit and the square of its units digit. How many two-digit positive integers are cuddly?

Driving along a highway, Megan noticed that her odometer showed $15951$ (miles). This number is a palindrome-it reads the same forward and backward. Then $2$ hours later, the odometer displayed the next higher palindrome. What was her average speed, in miles per hour, during this $2$ -hour period?

Ximena lists the whole numbers $1$ through $30$ once. Emilio copies Ximena's numbers, replacing each occurrence of the digit $2$ by the digit $1$ . Ximena adds her numbers and Emilio adds his numbers. How much larger is Ximena's sum than Emilio's?

Isaac added two three-digit positive integers. All six digits in these numbers are different. Isaac's sum is a three-digit number $S$ . What is the smallest possible value for the sum of the digits of $S$ ?

How many three-digit numbers are not divisible by $5$ , have digits that sum to less than $20$ , and have the first digit equal to the third digit?

A palindrome, such as $83438$ , is a number that remains the same when its digits are reversed. The numbers $x$ and $x+32$ are three-digit and four-digit palindromes, respectively. What is the sum of the digits of $x$ ?

The sum of the digits of a two-digit number is subtracted from the number. The units digit of the result is $6$ . How many two-digit numbers have this property?

The sum of the two 5-digit numbers $AMC10$ and $AMC12$ is $123422$ . What is $A+M+C$ ?

Let $\clubsuit(x)$ denote the sum of the digits of the positive integer $x$ . For example, $\clubsuit(8)=8$ and $\clubsuit(123)=1+2+3=6$ . For how many two-digit values of $x$ is $\clubsuit(\clubsuit(x))=3$ ?

Let $P(n)$ and $S(n)$ denote the product and the sum, respectively, of the digits of the integer $n$ . For example, $P(23) = 6$ and $S(23) = 5$ . Suppose $N$ is a two-digit number such that $N = P(N)+S(N)$ . What is the units digit of $N$ ?

A digital display shows the current date as an $8$ -digit integer consisting of a $4$ -digit year, followed by a $2$ -digit month, followed by a $2$ -digit date within the month. For example, Arbor Day this year is displayed as $20230428.$ For how many dates in $2023$ does each digit appear an even number of times in …

Let $n$ be a positive integer and $d$ be a digit such that the value of the numeral $\underline{32d}$ in base $n$ equals $263$ , and the value of the numeral $\underline{324}$ in base $n$ equals the value of the numeral $\underline{11d1}$ in base six. What is $n + d ?$

What is the greatest possible sum of the digits in the base-seven representation of a positive integer less than $2019$ ?

For some positive integer $k$ , the repeating base- $k$ representation of the (base-ten) fraction $\frac{7}{51}$ is $0.\overline{23}_k = 0.232323..._k$ . What is $k$ ?

How many nonnegative integers can be written in the form $$a_7\cdot3^7+a_6\cdot3^6+a_5\cdot3^5+a_4\cdot3^4+a_3\cdot3^3+a_2\cdot3^2+a_1\cdot3^1+a_0\cdot3^0,$$ where $a_i\in \{-1,0,1\}$ for $0\le i \le 7$ ?

How many of the base-ten numerals for the positive integers less than or equal to $2017$ contain the digit $0$ ?

Let $S(n)$ equal the sum of the digits of positive integer $n$ . For example, $S(1507) = 13$ . For a particular positive integer $n$ , $S(n) = 1274$ . Which of the following could be the value of $S(n+1)$ ?

Hexadecimal (base-16) numbers are written using numeric digits $0$ through $9$ as well as the letters $A$ through $F$ to represent $10$ through $15$ . Among the first $1000$ positive integers, there are $n$ whose hexadecimal representation contains only numeric digits. What is the sum of the digits of $n$ ?

Danica drove her new car on a trip for a whole number of hours, averaging $55$ miles per hour. At the beginning of the trip, $abc$ miles was displayed on the odometer, where $abc$ is a 3-digit number with $a \ge 1$ and $a + b + c \le 7$ . At the end of the trip, the odometer showed $cba$ miles. What is …

The product $(8)(888\dots8)$ , where the second factor has $k$ digits, is an integer whose digits have a sum of $1000$ . What is $k$ ?

In the addition shown below $A, B, C,$ and $D$ are distinct digits. How many different values are possible for $D$ ? $$\begin{array}{lr}&ABBCB\\ +& BCADA\\ \hline & DBDDD\end{array}$$

In base $10$ , the number $2013$ ends in the digit $3$ . In base $9$ , on the other hand, the same number is written as $(2676)_{9}$ and ends in the digit $6$ . For how many positive integers $b$ does the base- $b$ -representation of $2013$ end in the digit $3$ ?

The number $2013$ has the property that its units digit is the sum of its other digits, that is $2+0+1=3$ . How many integers less than $2013$ but greater than $1000$ share this property?

A palindrome between $1000$ and $10,000$ is chosen at random. What is the probability that it is divisible by $7$ ?

How many three-digit numbers satisfy the property that the middle digit is the average of the first and the last digits?

The two digits in Jack's age are the same as the digits in Bill's age, but in reverse order. In five years Jack will be twice as old as Bill will be then. What is the difference in their current ages?

A base-10 three digit number $n$ is selected at random. Which of the following is closest to the probability that the base-9 representation and the base-11 representation of $n$ are both three-digit numerals?

There are exactly $K$ positive integers $5 \leq b \leq 2024$ such that the base- $b$ integer $2024_{b}$ is divisible by $16$ (where $16$ is in base ten). What is the sum of the digits of $K$ ?

There exists a unique strictly increasing sequence of nonnegative integers $a_1 < a_2 < … < a_k$ such that $$\frac{2^{289}+1}{2^{17}+1} = 2^{a_1} + 2^{a_2} + … + 2^{a_k}.$$ What is $k?$

How many four-digit integers $abcd$ , with $a \neq 0$ , have the property that the three two-digit integers $ab<bc<cd$ form an increasing arithmetic sequence? One such number is $4692$ , where $a=4$ , $b=6$ , $c=9$ , and $d=2$ .

For each positive integer $n$ , let $S(n)$ denote the sum of the digits of $n.$ For how many values of $n$ is $n + S(n) + S(S(n)) = 2007?$

A finite sequence of three-digit integers has the property that the tens and units digits of each term are, respectively, the hundreds and tens digits of the next term, and the tens and units digits of the last term are, respectively, the hundreds and tens digits of the first term. For example, such a sequence might …

Let $n$ denote the smallest positive integer that is divisible by both $4$ and $9,$ and whose base- $10$ representation consists of only $4$ 's and $9$ 's, with at least one of each. What are the last four digits of $n?$

For a positive integer $n$ and nonzero digits $a$ , $b$ , and $c$ , let $A_n$ be the $n$ -digit integer each of whose digits is equal to $a$ ; let $B_n$ be the $n$ -digit integer each of whose digits is equal to $b$ , and let $C_n$ be the $2n$ -digit (not $n$ -digit) integer each of whose digits is equal to $c$ . What …

Bernardo chooses a three-digit positive integer $N$ and writes both its base-5 and base-6 representations on a blackboard. Later LeRoy sees the two numbers Bernardo has written. Treating the two numbers as base-10 integers, he adds them to obtain an integer $S$ . For example, if $N = 749$ , Bernardo writes the numbers …