Divisibility Trick for 11

Similar to the divisibility rule for division by 9, there is a trick for division by 11 in base-10: we take the sum of the digits with alternating signs, and this quantity is divisible by 11 if and only if the original integer is divisible by 11. In this video, we prove that this trick works using modular arithmetic.

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