Today I saw the number 7452 and I thought: that's pretty; from the first to the second digit you go down by three, and from the third to the fourth digit you go down by three.
It turns out that 7452 is not a multiple of 11.
Is there any four-digit number , whose digits are all different, with the property that d 1 − d 2 = d 3 − d 4 (where d 1 means the first digit and so on) and is a multiple of 11?
If so, type the smallest number with this property. If not, type 0.
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Consider a 4-digit integer N = d 1 d 2 d 3 d 4 . Then
N ≡ 1 0 0 0 d 1 + 1 0 0 d 2 + 1 0 d 3 + d 4 (mod 11) ≡ 1 0 d 1 + d 2 + 1 0 d 3 + d 4 (mod 11) ≡ 1 0 ( d 2 + n ) + d 2 + 1 0 ( d 4 + n ) + d 4 (mod 11) ≡ 1 1 ( d 2 + d 4 ) + 2 0 n (mod 11) ≡ 9 n (mod 11) Let d 1 − d 2 = d 3 − d 4 = n where n ∈ [ 0 , 9 ] is an integer.
For N to be divisible by 11, n = 0 or d 1 = d 2 and d 3 = d 4 . Therefore, there is no 4-digit integer of different digits that has the property. The answer is 0 .
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Let the difference d 1 − d 2 = d 3 − d 4 = : a .
A number is a multiple of 11 if and only if that is true for the alternating digit sum; that is, d 1 − d 2 + d 3 − d 4 must be a multiple of 11. This means that ( d 1 − d 2 ) + ( d 3 − d 4 ) = 2 a is a multiple of 11; but since for sure ∣ a ∣ ≤ 9 this is only possible if a = 0 . However, that would make d 1 = d 2 and d 3 = d 4 , while we required that all digits are different.
The conclusion is that there are no such numbers.