Problem 3. Find the three last digits of the number $10^{2022}-9^{2022}$.
Answer: 119.

Solution. Since $A=10^{2022}-(10-1)^{2022}=10^{2022}-10^{2022}+2022 \cdot 10^{2021}-C_{2022}^{2} \cdot 10^{2022}+\ldots+$ $C_{2022}^{3} \cdot 10^{3}-C_{2022}^{2} \cdot 10^{2}+C_{2022}^{1} \cdot 10-1$, then $A(\bmod 1000) \equiv-C_{2022}^{2} \cdot 100+C_{2022}^{1} \cdot 10-1(\bmod 1000) \equiv$ $-\frac{2022 \cdot 2021 \cdot 100}{2}+20220-1(\bmod 1000) \equiv-100+220-1 \equiv 119$.