SOLUTION: use the digits to make two 5 digits numbers and subtract one from the other to get an answer of or as close as possible to 12345 . In the two sets of five digits numbers 1. Writ

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Question 1147119: use the digits to make two 5 digits numbers and subtract one from the other to get an answer of or as close as possible to 12345 . In the two sets of five digits numbers
1. Writing a number sentence?
2. showing your calculations?

Answer by ikleyn(52786)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The post does not have restrictions on the digits choice,

so I can take one number as B = 10000 and the other as A = 22345, providing the difference A - B = 12345, exactly as it is required.

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Not much sense in the problem and in its solution, without posing some restrictions.



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