Divisibility Rules
Divisibility Rules
Divisibility Rules
Question 1 Question 5
[JMC 2011 Q2] How many of the integers 123, [JMC 2005 Q15] There are six different three-
234, 345, 456, 567 are multiples of 3? digit numbers, each of which contains all the
digits 1, 3 and 5. How many of these three-digit
[ ]4 [ ]5 [ ]0 [ ]1 [ ]2
Question 2 [ ]3 [ ]4
[JMC 2004 Q2] Which of the following numbers Question 6
is exactly divisible by 7?
[JMC 1999 Q17] The 8-digit number 1234*678
Question 8
[ ] 12 is a multiple of 2
[JMC 1997 Q20] A four-digit number was
[ ] 123 is a multiple of 3 written on a piece of paper.
[ ] 1234 is a multiple of 4
[ ] 12 345 is a multiple of 5 The last two digits were then blotted out (as
shown). If the complete number is exactly
[ ] 123 456 is a multiple of 6 divisible by three, by four, and by five, what is
the sum of the two missing digits?
Question 4
Question 9
[JMC 2003 Q13] This is a prime year, since 2003
is a prime number. In the next ten years there [IMC 1997 Q12] Gill is nine years old this year
is just one prime year. Which is it? so she was fascinated to discover that an
integer is divisible by 9 precisely when the sum
of its digits is also divisible by 9.
[ ] 2005 [ ] 2007 [ ] 2009 If the six-digit number “1*3456” is to be a
multiple of 9, what must the missing digit be?
[ ] 2011 [ ] 2013
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Question 12
Question 18
[JMO 2011 B1] Every digit of a given positive
integer is either a 3 or a 4 with each occurring [JMO 2017 B6] The 9-digit positive integer 𝑁
at least once. The integer is divisible by both 3 with digit pattern 𝐴𝐵𝐶𝐴𝐵𝐶𝐵𝐵𝐵 is divisible by
and 4. What is the smallest such integer? every integer from 1 to 17 inclusive.
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