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Sum of distinct digit number (Posted on 2024-03-28) Difficulty: 2 of 5
Find the sum of all of the three digit positive integers with three distinct digits.

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Solution A more complicated way Comment 4 of 4 |
Here's an analytic strategy that calculates the average of each digit in a 3-digit number with unique digits.

There are 9 ways to choose the first digit, 9 ways to choose the second, and 8 ways to choose the third.  The number of 3-digit numbers with unique digits is 9*9*8 = 648.

The average first digit (which cannot be zero) is 5, whereas the other digits' average value is less than that.  If the choosing of digits 2 and 3 were independent of the first digit, then the average value of digits 2 and 3 would be 4.5.  Then the answer would be 648 * (100*5 + 10*4.5 + 4.5) = 356076.  
But the value of digits 2 and 3 is not independent of the value of digit 1; it is biased slightly towards zero since digit 1 can never be zero.
Consider if the first digit were 1, then digits 2 and 3 would have an average value of (0+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9)/9.  If you repeat that process nine times, each time eliminating one digit from (1,2,...,9), you get an average value for digits 2 and 3 of 40/9.

So the equation becomes 
648 * (100*5 + 10*40/9 + 40/9) = 355680

  Posted by Larry on 2024-03-28 09:43:23
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