Stage: 3 Challenge Level: 
The five digit number A679B, in base ten, is divisible by 72. What are the values of A and B?
Multiplication & division. Integers. Workshop. Modulus arithmetic. Divisibility. Factors and multiples. Properties of numbers. smartphone. Working systematically. Common factors.
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