1089 Trick Worksheet
The trick (Reverse and subtract): Reverse the number and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. The answer is always one of 198, 297, 396, 495, 594, 693, 792, 891: middle digit 9, first and last digits adding to 9. Reverse that answer and add: you always get 1089.
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- 1.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 8. What is that number?
- 2.594 + 495 =
- 3.Take 940. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 4.693 + 396 =
- 5.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 4. What is that number?
- 6.792 + 297 =
- 7.Take 220. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 8.Do the 1089 trick with 920: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 9.Do the 1089 trick with 591: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 10.Take 920. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 11.Do the 1089 trick with 960: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 12.Take 825. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 13.Do the 1089 trick with 623: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 14.495 + 594 =
- 15.Take 358. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 16.396 + 693 =
- 17.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 6. What is that number?
- 18.Take 972. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 19.297 + 792 =
- 20.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 2. What is that number?
- 21.198 + 891 =
- 22.Do the 1089 trick with 376: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 23.Take 690. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 24.Do the 1089 trick with 650: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 25.Take 974. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 26.Do the 1089 trick with 340: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 27.Take 472. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 28.Do the 1089 trick with 356: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 29.Take 951. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 30.Do the 1089 trick with 119: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 31.Take 773. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 32.Do the 1089 trick with 301: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 33.Do the 1089 trick with 714: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 34.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 3. What is that number?
- 35.Take 208. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 36.Take 724. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 37.Take 378. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 38.Do the 1089 trick with 351: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 39.Take 985. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 40.Take 400. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
Answer key
- 891
- 1089
- 891
- 1089
- 495
- 1089
- 198
- 1089
- 1089
- 891
- 1089
- 297
- 1089
- 1089
- 495
- 1089
- 693
- 693
- 1089
- 297
- 1089
- 1089
- 594
- 1089
- 495
- 1089
- 198
- 1089
- 792
- 1089
- 396
- 1089
- 1089
- 396
- 594
- 297
- 495
- 1089
- 396
- 396
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