Check what the result would have been if Sundaram had chosen the numbers shown below.
Q3. 117
Let chosen number be abc then,
abc = 100a + 10b + c
cab = 100c + 10a + b
bca = 100b + 10c + a
The addition of the above all three, abc + cab + bca = 111(a + b + c) = 37 × 3(a + b + c), which is divisible by 37
here a = 1, b = 1, and c = 7
117 + 711 + 117 = 999 = 37*27 i.e. divisible by 37.