2002 AIME II Problems/Problem 1
Problem
Given that
How many distinct values of are possible?
Solution
We express the numbers as and . From this, we have Because and are digits, and and are both between 1 and 9 (from condition 1), there are possible values (since all digits except can be expressed this way).
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