Find a 3-digit positive integer N such that the sum of the three digits of N equals the product of the first two digits of N and also equals the product of the last two digits of N.

How many values of N are there? Prove that there are no others.

*** N does not contain any leading zero.

The 3-digit number must be a palyndrome, say  a string aba.

2a+b=ab  (eq 1))

 Yields       b=2a/(a-1)

With integer solutions   ( a,b)   =    (2,4)   & ( a,b)   =    (3,3)  

Answer:  242 & 333.

Edited on May 7, 2014, 9:59 am

Posted by Ady TZIDON on 2014-05-07 09:49:39