Birthday Multiples

Problem

Joey, Chloe, and their daughter Zoe share a birthday. Joey is one year older than Chloe, and Zoe turns exactly 11 today. Today Chloe's age is an integer multiple of Zoe's age, and this will happen on exactly 88 more birthdays in the future. On the next birthday when Joey's age is an integer multiple of Zoe's age, what is the sum of the digits of Joey's age?

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Solution

Difficulty7/10
TopicsDiophantine Equations, number theory, Counting

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