In the following addition, different letters represent different non-zero digits. What is the 5-digit number A B C D E ?
+ A A B B A C C C A D D D D A E E E E E A D D D D D D A B B B B B B B A
What is A B C D E ?
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Unfortunately I lost the chance to post my solution. So, if you don't mind, I'm posting it here. Since the leftmost digit of the sum is A , we have B < 5 (no carry over must be thrown to the leftmost column). So possible values of B are 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 . For B = 1 , A = 7 . But then A − 2 B = 5 , and the maximum carry over from the third from left column can't be greater than 4 , and hence this value of B is discarded. For B = 2 , A = 4 . But then 3 C has to be equal to 4 , which is not allowed since C is an integer. For B = 3 , A = 1 . But then 2 B has to be equal to 1 in maximum, which is not allowed. For B = 4 , A = 8 . Then 3 C plus the carried over number must be equal to 8 . Let the carried over number be z . Then C = 3 8 − z . Hence z = 2 , C = 2 . Then 4 D plus the carried over number must be equal to 2 8 . If the carried over number be x , then D = 7 − 4 x . Since x < 5 , therefore x = 4 and D = 6 . Again, 5 E plus the carried over number must be 4 8 . If the number be y , then E = 5 4 8 − y . Since y < 5 , therefore y = 3 , E = 9 . Hence A B C D E = 8 4 2 6 9
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We get a lot of information just considering the last two columns. Let z be the carry-over from the last column and y the carry-over from the second-to-last column, so that we have 7 B = 1 0 z + A , and 6 D + z = 1 0 y + A .
From the second equation, we see that z − A must be even - that is, the two digits of 7 B must have the same parity (note that if B < 2 we have z = 0 ). The only such multiples of 7 for B < 1 0 are 7 × 0 = 0 0 , 7 × 4 = 2 8 , 7 × 5 = 3 5 and \ 7 × 6 = 4 2 .
Clearly, we can't have B = 0 , because then we'd need A = 0 , which isn't allowed. Similarly, if B = 5 we get A = 5 too, not allowed. Let's look at the other cases:
Case B = 6 : we get A = 2 and x = 4 . So 6 D + 4 = 1 0 y + 2 , and D is either 3 or 8 , giving y = 2 or y = 5 respectively.
The next equation we have is 5 E + y = 1 0 x + A . Plugging in the two cases, we find either 5 E + 2 = 1 0 x + 2 or 5 E + 2 = 1 0 x + 5 . The second of these is clearly impossible; so the only subcase to consider is
B = 6 , A = 2 , D = 3 and E even. The only remaining even numbers are 0 , 4 and 8 , giving x = 0 , x = 2 and x = 4 respectively.
Checking the next equation, 4 D + x = 1 0 w + A , we already know D = 3 and A = 2 ; substituting in, 1 2 + x = 1 0 w + 2 . So x = w = 0 and E = 0 .
3 C = 1 0 v + 2 ; only solution is E = 4 , v = 1 .
2 B + v = 1 0 u + A ; substituting, 1 2 + 1 = 1 0 u + 2 , which doesn't work! So we can't have B = 6 .
Case B = 4 : we get A = 8 and x = 2 . So 6 D + 2 = 1 0 y + 8 , and D is either 1 or 6 , giving y = 0 or y = 3 .
5 E + y = 1 0 x + 8 ; so the only possibility is D = 6 , y = 3 , and 5 E + 3 = 1 0 x + 8 so that E must be odd. We haven't used any odd digits yet, so the only information this gives us is 0 ≤ x ≤ 4 .
Next equation: 4 D + x = 1 0 w + A ; substituting in, 2 4 + x = 1 0 w + 8 ; so we must have x = 4 , w = 2 and E = 9 .
3 C + w = 1 0 v + A ; substituting, 3 C + 2 = 1 0 v + 8 ; so the number 3 C ends with a 6 - ie C = 2 .
Pulling all this together, we find the only possible solution is A B C D E = 8 4 2 6 9 , and checking in the full equation we see this does indeed work.