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The second way is a much nicer one. We notice that 1003 is 106, so we know for n=100 that n3+11n is bigger than 106, so we check n=99 and we get: 970398 which is smaller than 106. So we have the answer: n=100 is the first n for which n3+11n is bigger than 106.

The next thing we have to prove is that n3+11n is always divisible by 6. This we will prove by using modular arithmetic. We will use modulus 6. For each n, we can have a residue of either: 0,1,2,3,4 or 5. For n3 we get the following residues:

0,1,2,3,4,5 respectively (to n). For 11n we get the following residues: 0,5,4,3,2,1 respectively (to n).

Combining n3 and 11n (respectively) we get a 0 residue, because: 0+0=0 (mod 6), 1+5=6=0 (mod 6), 2+4=6=0 (mod 6), 3+3=6=0 (mod 6), 4+2=6=0 (mod 6), 5+1=6=0 (mod 6). This means that we get a zero residue when dividing by 6, or in other words, (n3+11n) is a multiple of 6 or 6 divides n3+11n.