Hey puzzle solvers. Can you find the mystery of the missing digit? Give this mathematics puzzle a try. Good Luck! Professor A professor asked Wilson to write down any multi-digit number. But, he put a condition, the number should not end with a zero. Wilson put down the number 96452. Then the professor asked Wilson to add up the five digits and subtract the total from the original number. Wilson did and here is what he got: 96452 – 26 = 96426 The professor then asked Wilson to cross out any one of the five digits and tell him the remaining numbers. Wilson crossed out the 2 and told the professor the rest of the digits. Wilson neither told the professor the original number nor what he had done with it. Yet, the professor told Wilson the exact number he had crossed out. How is it possible? Answer The professor has to add the rest of the digits, find the nearest number to the sum that is divisible by 9 and get the difference. So, Wilson gave the number 9646 to the professor. The professor will add the numbers (9 + 6 + 4 + 6) to get 25. The nearest number to 25 that is divisible by 9 is 27. And the crossed out number is 27 – 25. This is a Maths trick that relies on the power of 9. Next Puzzle: Fake Report
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