Saturday, 19 October 2013

Mathematical Techniques and Short Cuts

Basic Techniques for carrying out Divisibility Test of Numbers


How to check if a number can be divided by 2?

Sol: A number is divisible by 2 if its last digit is divisible by 2. Simply said, this means if last digit of a number is 0, 2, 4, 6 or 8, the number will be fully divided by 2

For Example : 8, 36, 296, 123899994 all are divisible by 2

How to check if a number can be divided by 3?

Sol : A number is divisible by 3 if the sum of its digits is divisible by 3

For Example : In case of 59892, the sum of its digit will be 5 + 9 + 8 + 9 + 2 = 33 and since 33 is divisible by 3 therefore this number will be divided fully by 3

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