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Number Properties GMAT - odds and evens



How many positive even integers less than 100 contain digits 4 or 7?
A. 16
B. 17
C. 18
D. 19
E. 20




There are 2 one-digit numbers {4 and 7 }. One of them is even. 
For the two-digit numbers (a and b): 

Numbers that have 4 or 7 for the first digit (4b, 7b).
Since even numbers must end by even digit, b could be {0, 2, 4, 6 or 8}. There are 2 × 5 = 10 such numbers.

Numbers that have 4 as the second digit (a4). These are all even.

The first digit, a, can be anything except 0. So there are 1 × 9 = 9 numbers.

Numbers that have 7 as the second digit (a4, b7) and these are all odd.

Note, that we’ve counted twice the two-digit numbers that have 4 as the second digit and 4 or 7 as the first (44, 74).

Therefore we have 1 + 10 + 9–2 = 18 possible variants overall.


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