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# Numbers of positive integers | AIME I, 2012 | Question 1

Try this beautiful problem from the American Invitational Mathematics Examination, AIME 2012 based on Numbers of positive integers.

## Numbers of positive integers - AIME 2012

Find the number of positive integers with three not necessarily distinct digits, $abc$, with $a \neq 0$ and $c \neq 0$ such that both $abc$ and $cba$ are multiples of $4$.

• is 107
• is 40
• is 840
• cannot be determined from the given information

### Key Concepts

Integers

Number Theory

Algebra

AIME, 2012, Question 1.

Elementary Number Theory by David Burton .

## Try with Hints

Here a number divisible by 4 if a units with tens place digit is divisible by 4

Then case 1 for 10b+a and for 10b+c gives 0(mod4) with a pair of a and c for every b

[ since abc and cba divisible by 4 only when the last two digits is divisible by 4 that is 10b+c and 10b+a is divisible by 4]

and case II 2(mod4) with a pair of a and c for every b

Then combining both cases we get for every b gives a pair of a s and a pair of c s

So for 10 b's with 2 a's and 2 c's for every b gives $10 \times 2 \times 2$

Then number of ways $10 \times 2 \times 2$ = 40 ways.