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2022 TT spring SA1

Source: 2022 Tournament of towns Spring

May 11, 2022
number theory

Problem Statement

For each of the 99 positive integers n,2n,3n,,9nn,2n,3n,\dots , 9n Alice take the first decimal digit (from the left) and writes it onto a blackboard. She selected nn so that among the nine digits on the blackboard there is the least possible number of different digits. What is this number of different digits equals to?