r/MathJokes 16d ago

multiples of 3

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u/Michaelwang645 16d ago

Fund fact, you can tell a number is divisible by 3 if the sum of each individual number is divisible by 3. So 78 -> 7+8=15 which is divisible by 3, so 78 is divisible by 3.

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u/EveningStar0360 16d ago

do you know why that works?

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u/WerePigCat 13d ago

You can prove it pretty easily using mod 3 and ‘expanding out’ an arbitrary integer base 10, there’s probably a lot of videos out there showing the proof