For this type of "the largest number which..." questions, you need to advance from left to right, using the largest possible digit in each case. For the first two digits, that would be 9, for the third digit (the right-most digit), the largest digit which will make this possible is an 8.
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Largest three digit number is 999 and we see that it is odd. One less than that is 998 and it is even and it is also three digits. No other 3 digit number is larger than 998 while being even.
199
999,998
It is: 9998
Take the smallest 6-digit even number, then subtract one from it.