Each of the letters represents a digit different than 0 and distinct letters represent different digits. Let be the decimal representation of the number , and let be the decimal representation of the number . And .
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Brute force/coding would work fine here, but there is a lot we can deduce first.
Firstly, 6 x < 1 0 0 0 0 so x < 1 6 6 7 , and A must be 1 . Also B < 7 .
The first digit of y must be one of 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 . But this is also its last digit; y is a multiple of 6 so it must be even; so D is either 6 or 8 .
If D were 6 , we would have y < 7 0 0 0 and so x < 1 1 6 7 ; so B would have to be 0 or 1 . But neither of these is allowed. So D = 8 .
6 C ≡ 8 ( m o d 1 0 ) ; so C = 3 or C = 8 . We can't have both C and D equal to 8 ; so C = 3 .
This leaves as the only possibilities for x the following: 1 2 2 3 , 1 4 4 3 , 1 5 5 3 , 1 6 6 3 . It's now easy to check by hand that the only one of these that gives the correct form for y is x = 1 4 4 3 .