Question

973 – 433 – 543 is always divisible by:
a.)43
b.)54
c.)97
d.)all of the above

Answer 1

So can you compute 973 – 433 – 543?

Answer 2

its -3

Answer 3

alright, so I see your dilemma, can you check and make sure you copied the question correctly?

Answer 4

if not, we shall have to approach this differently

Answer 5

yes its 100% correct lol

Answer 6

okie dokey, so do you remember the distributive property?

Answer 7

a(b+c)=ab+ac ?

Answer 8

yea, so we can extend that to 3 numbers like so a(b+c+d)=ab+ac+ad

Answer 9

so, if we figure out which numbers divide all 3 terms evenly, we can determine our answer

Answer 10

make sense?

Answer 11

that is accurate, but it is not the distributive property

Answer 12

distributive property is like (12+18+21)=3(4+6+7)

Answer 13

oh wait it should be

\(\large 973 – 433 – 543=970-430-540-3\)

Answer 14

no

Answer 15

it'd be like \[3(324.333+144.333+181)=973-433-543\]

Answer 16

if you used 3.

Answer 17

Do you see that I divided?

Answer 18

ok but why r u taking 3 commn

Answer 19

commn? I don't know that word. And I used 3 because that is the number you were attempting to use above

Answer 20

I wanted to show you it does not work

Answer 21

->common

Answer 22

ah sorry, I'm tired lol You're my last question for the night

Answer 23

but anyways, do you understand that when you factor something out of parentheses you will be dividing each term in the parentheses by that number?

Answer 24

i do

Answer 25

ok, so how do you think we can arrive at our answer given this information?

Answer 26

i d k that's y i posted

Answer 27

Ya know what, that way doesn't even work, none of these solutions work O.O or I am just that tired. I'm gonna hand off to @ganeshie8 or @ParthKohli as I do not think that the solution exists the way the question is phrased.

Answer 28

are you sure that last answer isn't None of the above?

Answer 29

my first thought was maybe it would be asking about divisibility of individual numbers, but that wouldn't work too.

Answer 30

let me post a screenshot

Answer 31

http://prntscr.com/62h05w

Answer 32

-3 is divisibly by +-1 and +-3, they are not there in the options so the question is wrong

Answer 33

yea, the question has a type-o

Answer 34

I thought I was just having a dumb day

Answer 35

maybe look at order of operations too...

973 - (433 - 543)

none of the options work here either

Answer 36

still have a hope for a miracle

Answer 37

conclusion: don't give a damn about that website

Answer 38

It should be 430 or 540 then the question would make sense