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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- 1.792 + 297 =
- 2.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 5. What is that number?
- 3.Do the 1089 trick with 359: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 4.Take 409. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 5.297 + 792 =
- 6.198 + 891 =
- 7.Take 814. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 8.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 6. What is that number?
- 9.Do the 1089 trick with 210: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 10.Take 784. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 11.Take 840. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 12.Do the 1089 trick with 920: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 13.Take 893. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 14.Take 946. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 15.Take 920. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 16.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 4. What is that number?
- 17.Do the 1089 trick with 123: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 18.Take 780. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 19.396 + 693 =
- 20.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 8. What is that number?
- 21.891 + 198 =
- 22.Take 703. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 23.495 + 594 =
- 24.Do the 1089 trick with 850: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 25.Take 823. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 26.Do the 1089 trick with 611: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 27.Do the 1089 trick with 500: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 28.Take 901. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 29.Take 895. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 30.Take 715. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 31.Take 218. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 32.In the 1089 trick, the subtraction gave a 3-digit number that starts with 1. What is that number?
- 33.Do the 1089 trick with 528: 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 7. What is that number?
- 35.Take 265. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 36.693 + 396 =
- 37.Do the 1089 trick with 910: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 38.Take 209. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
- 39.Do the 1089 trick with 630: reverse and subtract, then reverse that answer and add. What do you get?
- 40.Take 547. Reverse its digits and take the smaller number away from the bigger one. What do you get?
Answer key
- 1089
- 594
- 1089
- 495
- 1089
- 1089
- 396
- 693
- 1089
- 297
- 792
- 1089
- 495
- 297
- 891
- 495
- 1089
- 693
- 1089
- 891
- 1089
- 396
- 1089
- 1089
- 495
- 1089
- 1089
- 792
- 297
- 198
- 594
- 198
- 1089
- 792
- 297
- 1089
- 1089
- 693
- 1089
- 198
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