How Many Times Will 5 Appear Between 500 and 600

Enjoy counting numbers?


Here’s a puzzle that will hone your counting skills.

If you wrote all of the numbers from 500 to 600 on a piece of paper,

how many times would you have written the number 5?

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Answer:

If you count mentally you can say the following;


As the digit in thousandth place it will appear 100 times. (500 to 599)

Then as a digit in tens place it will appear 10 times (550 to 559)

As a digit in units place it will appear 10 times (5, 15,25….95)

Hence the total number of 5s are;

100 + 10 + 10 = 120

Therefore;

Answer = 120.

If you want to actually write and count here is how it would look;

No. Number of 5s
500 1
501 2
502 3
503 4
504 5
505 7
506 8
507 9
508 10
509 11
510 12
511 13
512 14
513 15
514 16
515 18
516 19
517 20
518 21
519 22
520 23
521 24
522 25
523 26
524 27
525 29
526 30
527 31
528 32
529 33
530 34
531 35
532 36
533 37
534 38
535 40
536 41
537 42
538 43
539 44
540 45
541 46
542 47
543 48
544 49
545 51
546 52
547 53
548 54
549 55
550 57
551 59
552 61
553 63
554 65
555 68
556 70
557 72
558 74
559 76
560 77
561 78
562 79
563 80
564 81
565 83
566 84
567 85
568 86
569 87
570 88
571 89
572 90
573 91
574 92
575 94
576 95
577 96
578 97
579 98
580 99
581 100
582 101
583 102
584 103
585 105
586 106
587 107
588 108
589 109
590 110
591 111
592 112
593 113
594 114
595 116
596 117
597 118
598 119
599 120
600

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