2001 AMC 12 Problems/Problem 6

The following problem is from both the 2001 AMC 12 #6 and 2001 AMC 10 #13, so both problems redirect to this page.

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A telephone number has the form $\text{ABC-DEF-GHIJ}$ , where each letter represents a different digit. The digits in each part of the number are in decreasing order; that is, $A > B > C$ , $D > E > F$ , and $G > H > I > J$ . Furthermore, $D$ , $E$ , and $F$ are consecutive even digits; $G$ , $H$ , $I$ , and $J$ are consecutive odd digits; and $A + B + C = 9$ . Find $A$ .

$\textbf{(A)}\ 4\qquad \textbf{(B)}\ 5\qquad \textbf{(C)}\ 6\qquad \textbf{(D)}\ 7\qquad \textbf{(E)}\ 8$

2001 AMC 12 (Problems • Answer Key • Resources)
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