The numbers all go to 11 - Can You Crack Them?
Are you up for a challenge? A team of footballers donning shirt numbers from 1 to 11 has stumped its coach into submission, proving that it's impossible to divide the players into defenders, midfielders, and forwards in groups whose total jersey numbers are divisible by 11. The problem lies with the sum of shirt number totals for the outfield players - a whopping 65, which can't be evenly divided by 11.
Meanwhile, if you're feeling nostalgic for your school days, you might recall the delightfully simple 11 x times table, where each answer is a palindrome (a number that reads the same backwards as forwards). But what about those of us who've grown out of such simplistic arithmetic? How many more answers from 11 x 1 to 11 x 99 are palindromes? The answer lies in understanding how multiplying by 11 works.
In another mathematical conundrum, a team must create the largest possible 10-digit number using each of the digits 0-9 exactly once and make it divisible by 11. While the biggest number starting with '987654' falls short due to an insurmountable difference of four between its sums, the subsequent arrangement, 9876524130, manages a much closer margin of eleven between its odd-position sum of twenty-eight and even-position sum of seventeen.
Can you solve it? The numbers all go to 11 - will you be able to crack these seemingly intractable mathematical puzzles or leave them to their clever solution.
Are you up for a challenge? A team of footballers donning shirt numbers from 1 to 11 has stumped its coach into submission, proving that it's impossible to divide the players into defenders, midfielders, and forwards in groups whose total jersey numbers are divisible by 11. The problem lies with the sum of shirt number totals for the outfield players - a whopping 65, which can't be evenly divided by 11.
Meanwhile, if you're feeling nostalgic for your school days, you might recall the delightfully simple 11 x times table, where each answer is a palindrome (a number that reads the same backwards as forwards). But what about those of us who've grown out of such simplistic arithmetic? How many more answers from 11 x 1 to 11 x 99 are palindromes? The answer lies in understanding how multiplying by 11 works.
In another mathematical conundrum, a team must create the largest possible 10-digit number using each of the digits 0-9 exactly once and make it divisible by 11. While the biggest number starting with '987654' falls short due to an insurmountable difference of four between its sums, the subsequent arrangement, 9876524130, manages a much closer margin of eleven between its odd-position sum of twenty-eight and even-position sum of seventeen.
Can you solve it? The numbers all go to 11 - will you be able to crack these seemingly intractable mathematical puzzles or leave them to their clever solution.
this is crazy what's with the team of footballers trying to divide themselves into groups that add up to a multiple of 11... like, can't they just be flexible about who plays where? 
and omg those palindromes from 11 x times table are wild, i've never seen anything like it. but you know what's even crazier than solving these puzzles? trying to make a 10-digit number divisible by 11 
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. If we multiply 11 with numbers from 1 to 99, we get palindromes for numbers like 11*1=11, 11*2=22, but not really for higher numbers... It's not that hard to see the pattern and find more palindrome answers yourself 
and I'm OBSESSED with the camera quality it's like, who needs a tripod when the pics are this good? anyway back to these math problems... I've always had a thing for palindromes, there's something about numbers that read the same way forwards & backwards that just fascinates me. maybe it's 'cause I was one of those kids who loved memorizing times tables in school lol.
. These math problems got me all stumped, I'm not even going to lie 
. And then you gotta try and find that perfect 10-digit number divisible by 11... it's like trying to squeeze 20 cats into a tiny box 
. I'm gonna leave these ones for the math whizzes, I'm good with just making fun of them 
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️. And what's with these 11 x times tables? Can't we move on to something more challenging, like quantum physics or AI development? 
The fact that our top players can't even crack a simple math problem like this is just not good enough for our economy 
. We need to step up the game and start producing problem solvers who can tackle the real-world challenges we're facing 
. This is what I call a national embarrassment 
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And then there's this crazy multiplication problem where we gotta create the largest 10-digit number using each digit from 0-9 exactly once and still get it to be divisible by 11... it's like trying to solve a puzzle blindfolded! 
I'm no math whiz, but I think I need some help figuring these out 
, I mean what's next gonna be solving a Rubik's cube while reciting the entire script of "Ocean's Eleven"? 
And can you believe those footballers couldn't figure out their own team dynamics? 
The larger number puzzle sounds more interesting to me, but those sums are crazy. Like, 20 and 17 is a small margin... I'm no math whiz, so I'll just have to leave it up to the clever folks out there 
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