I was checking the following divisibility tests exercise:
You receive a message from an extraterrestrial alien, who is calculating
$43434343^{2}$. The answer is $18865ab151841649$, where the two digits represented
as a and b were lost in transmission. Use congruences $mod$ $9$ and
$mod$ $11$ to determine the answer to this fundamental problem.
I've been trying to start changing the required numbers on
$18865ab151841649$, the sum term by term is $67$, so we need
$a+b$ $=$ $5$ to reach $72$ multiple of $9$, we have six couples:
$(3,2)$ $(2,3)$ $(4,1)$ $(1,4)$ $(5,0)$ $(0,5)$
After that what I tried to do is to check each couple with the divisibility test for 11, but none of them worked by substracting the amount on even positions to odd positions. Any help will be really appreciated.
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