Repeaters

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Stage: 3 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Choose any 3 digits and make a 6 digit number by repeating the 3 digits in the same order (e.g. 594594). Whatever digits you choose the number will always be divisible by 7 and by 11 and by 13 exactly, in each case without a remainder. Explain why.

Published September 1997.