Finding the numbers on cards

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This question is a bit confusing. I decided to start by showing that all cards don't contain the same number.

Lets say I pick a subset of $10$ cards then they have $10-19$

$10+11+12+13+..+18+19=145$ which is not divisible by $100$

but to be divisible by $100$, each card has to end in $0$ that leads to each card being $10,20,30,...80,90$ but that doesn't guarantee divisibility with the subsets.

If each card is $10$ and i take a subset containing $14$ cards, then it still wont be divisible by $100$

Any ideas on this problem?

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The assumptions are impossible to satisfy: The sum of the empty subset of the cards is $0$ which is divisible by $100$.

The claim is therefore vacuously true. Q.E.D.

(It would have been more involved if the assumption said "... any nonempty subset of cards ...")