Problem #PRU-100222

Problems Algebra and arithmetics Number theory. Divisibility Divisibility of a number. General properties Divisibility rules

Problem

Robinson Crusoe’s friend Friday was looking at \(3\)-digit numbers with the same first and third digits. He soon noticed that such number is divisible by \(7\) if the sum of the second and the third digits is divisible by \(7\). Prove that he was right.