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On the Motorway



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ON THE MOTORWAY

 

 

On a car journey, get the children to find the digit sum of car number plates.


Any number of any size can always be reduced to a single figure by adding its digits.

  • For example 42 has two digits which add up to 6.
    We say "the digit sum of 42 is 6".

  • The digit sum of 413 is 8 because 4+1+3=8.

  • For 20511 the digit sum is 9.

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  • Now suppose we want the digit sum of 417.
    Adding 4, 1 and 7 gives 12.
    But as 12 is a 2-figure number we add its digits to
    get 3 (1+2=3).

    We could write  417 = 12 = 3.

  • And so 737 = 17 = 8.

We simply add the digits in the number and add again if necessary.

This is simple and one of its uses is in checking sums, as we will see.



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All things that can be
known have number;
for it is not possible
that without numbers
anything can be either
conceived or known
PHILOLAUS