2014 AMC 10B Problems/Problem 10
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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 .
From the addition of the frontmost digits,
cannot have a carry, since the answer is still a five-digit number.
Therefore
.
Using the second or fourth column, this then implies that , so that
and
.
Note that all of the remaining equalities are now satisfied:
and
. Since the digits must be distinct, the smallest possible value of
is
, and the largest possible value is
. Thus we have that
, so the number of possible values is
Video Solution
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