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Division Tips - Dividing By Three Wanna know if you can divide a number evenly by three? Just add up all the digits until you have a number. If THAT number is divisible by three, so is the original number. Case in point: 8787. If you add 8+7+8+7 you get 30. Then add 3+0, which equals three. Three is definitely divisible by three ,

Division Tips - Dividing By Three


Wanna know if you can divide a number evenly by three? Just add up all the digits until you have a  number. If THAT number is divisible by three, so is the original number. Case in point: 8787. If you add 8+7+8+7 you get 30. Then add 3+0, which equals three. Three is definitely divisible by three, 

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Bhavya
askIITians Faculty 1281 Points
8 years ago
Dear student
Yes that’s the trick for checking divisibility by three.
In this example we get that since 3 is divisible by 3, so has to be 8787 which is true
8787/3 = 2929

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