Many Ones

Middle School Madness - May 13, 2024



How many times does the digit 1 appear in a list of all positive integers numbers from 1 to 110 inclusive?  In other words, if your wrote the positive numbers 1 – 100 on a piece of paper, how many times will the digit 1 be written?

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