SOLUTION: URGENT HELP: The sum of the digits of a two-digit number is 9. If the digits are reversed, the new number is 9 less than the original number. What is the number when the digits a

Question 1000353: URGENT HELP: The sum of the digits of a two-digit number is 9. If the digits are reversed, the new number is 9 less than the original number. What is the number when the digits are reversed?
Answer by fcabanski(1391) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The original number is 54. The new number is 45.

The possibilities for the original number were 18, 27, 36, 45, 54, 63, 72, 81, 90. Only one of those, when reversed, results in a number 9 less than the original.

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