How many 8s are there between 1 and 888?

Answer 1

To find how many times the digit '8' appears between 1 and 888, we can count the occurrences in each place value: units, tens, and hundreds. In the units place, '8' appears in the numbers 8, 18, 28, ..., 888, totaling 89 occurrences. In the tens place, it appears in 80-89, 180-189, 280-289, 380-389, 480-489, 580-589, 680-689, 780-789, 880-889, totaling 10 occurrences for each of the 9 full decades plus the last decade, which amounts to 90 occurrences. In the hundreds place, '8' appears only in the range 800-888, which adds 89 occurrences. Adding these, we find that '8' appears a total of 268 times between 1 and 888.