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Problem
In the addition shown below , , , and are distinct digits. How many different values are possible for ?
Solution
Note from the addition of the last digits that . In the latter case we must have that , implying that . In the addition of the third digits, we then have , a contradiction from our assumption that . Thus .
This then implies that , or . Note that all of the remaining equalities are now satisfied: and . Thus, if we have some such that then the addition will be satisfied. Since the digits must be distinct, the smallest possible value of is , and the largest possible value is . Any of these values can be obtained by taking . Thus we have that , so the number of possible values is $\boxed{\textbf{(C) }7$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg)
See Also
2014 AMC 10B (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | ||
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