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Ted's number was 925: \(925\div25=37\).

If Ted had removed the final digit of his number, then he would be looking for a solution of \(ABC = 37\times AB\). But \(ABC\) is between 10 and 11 times \(AB\) (it is \(10\times AB + C\)) and so cannot be 37 times \(AB\). So Ted cannot have removed the final digit.

Therefore, Ted must have removed one of the first two digits: so two- and three- digit numbers have the same final digit (\(C\)). The final digit of the three-digit number (\(C\)) will be the final digit of \(7\times C\) (7 times the final digit of the two digit number). This is only possible if the final digit is \(C\) is 0 or 5.

This only leaves four possible solutions—10, 15, 20 and 25—as \(30\times37>1000\). Of these only \(925=37\times25\) works.

Extension

How many three-digit numbers are there that are a multiple of one of the two-digit numbers you can make by removing a digit?